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Impact of pandemic on insurer solvency still to be fully measured, warns ACPR
07 December 2020French regulator also notes no changes in asset allocation by French insurers year on year
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43% of global re/insurance assets covered by divestment policies
02 December 2020Insure Our Future publishes annual scorecard on insurers' climate policies
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Swiss Re receives regulatory approval for fund management
30 November 2020Swiss Re will open its natural catastrophe portfolio to investors through a permanent fund format
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LGIM acquires two self-storage facilities
30 November 2020Legal & General's Industrial Property Investment Fund valued at £2.3bn
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MAPFRE appoints group head of sustainability
27 November 2020As well as a new CEO for its real estate asset manager
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Groupama AM favors risky assets
27 November 2020Asset manager bets on a return to pre-crisis growth levels by 09/21 in the US and a year later in Europe
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Use of stress tests: careful not to address the fire that just happened
25 November 2020Ash Belur, a director at Willis Towers Watson's insurance investment team, discusses insurers' usage of stress tests in their investment portfolios and how 2020 might have thrown many of the scenario assumptions out of the window. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Chart: UK insurers' allocation to EEA decreases
20 November 2020But Brexit not the sole driver of the trend
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Neither doom nor boom for European insurers in 2021
19 November 2020But market volatility and credit risk will be key high-risks next year, S&P warns
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Climate transition: insurers should lobby government and engage corporates
19 November 2020Insurers have made progress on investment side but more effort needed in underwriting, Zurich head of sustainability says