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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
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Credit portfolio top of mind this year, Aviva's Blanc says
19 November 2020CEO highlights worrying sectors and where investment opportunities lie
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"ESG reflected in Solvency II capital charges through internal ratings", Axa CIO
18 November 2020Pascal Christory also highlights criteria for choosing ESG data providers
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US Election result: Georgia on investors' mind
18 November 2020The great US election of 2020 is done and it has changed little for insurance investors. Biden's win with a slim majority in Congress, and the likelihood of a gridlock means any major reforms are improbable. Unless Georgia delivers the Senate to the Democrats. Sarfraz Thind reports
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Wellington wins PIC's £700m US muni bond mandate
18 November 2020Manager's climate risk expertise key consideration for mandate win, insurer says
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Sanlam Investment partners with Robeco on ESG
18 November 2020Third-party manager will offer ESG reporting, active ownership and engagement services
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EFRAG task force identifies nearly 100 non-financial reporting initiatives
17 November 2020"I'm waiting for the winner to be chosen," CIO tells Insurance Asset Risk
- APAC Weekly - Region's re/insurers set up pools to cover marine war risks and petrol purchases
- Data centres: The darlings of discussions but not yet of allocation
- AM Best suggests time is running out for PE/AM to buy into US annuity industry
- Institutional investors double ETF use in last five years
- PRA highlights FundedRe and Stress Test in 2026/27 Business Plan priorities
- S&P warns SII reforms could spur more private credit investments
- NA lifers resilient in face of hypothetical private credit market stress, S&P Global Ratings says
- PGIM hires new head of insurance from Blackstone
- AllianzGI announces $270m close of APAC infra credit fund
- German insurers welcome seismic pension reform - with caveats
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La Caisse acquires blood analysis and diagnostics business
30 April 2026Investor partnered with Archimed to acquire Stago, a French hemostasis specialist
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Mirova invests $15m in Indian EV battery business
30 April 2026Battery Smart has 1,600 stations across 50 cities
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Aberdeen appoints new multi-asset and private market solutions heads
30 April 2026Marianne Zangerl promoted and Mark Meiklejon joins from Aviva
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SFCR season: The UK matching adjustment's heavyweights and their investment portfolios
30 April 2026Last year capped off a successful opening decade for the matching adjustment, helping its UK users save a whopping £720.6bn worth of regulatory capital. David Walker examines how they did it
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PRA plans for funded re part of global 'regulatory convergence', lawyers argue
30 April 2026UK regulator issued proposals for funded re capital treatment yesterday