Tokio Marine confirms investor status by Q1 risk budget breakdown
Asset management risk now represents 67% of total risks
News
MetLife originated $6bn in green investments in 2021
Grows responsible investment portfolio to $82bn
Index IQ launches first 'semi-transparent' ETF
Managed by growth equity investment firm Winslow Capital Management
Nippon Life invests ¥20bn in Japanese climate transition strategy fund
The fund is managed by the Nissay Asset Management
Cincinnati Financial appoints Steven Soloria to head of investments
Replaces retiring Martin Hollenbeck who quits after 14 years in role
Viridium adds €21bn assets in Zurich German life book deal
Zurich will add 8 points to its Swiss Solvency Test ratio
Moody's spells out illiquid investment exposure of UK insurers
Allocations will grow to underpin more bulk purchase annuity work, ratings agency predicts
Chart of the week: ESG is here... but what is ESG?
Is there a shared end-goal on sustainability?
Actuaries need to get better at modeling shocks, Scor Kessler says
We are moving to a stochastic world of shocks, he tells French actuaries
Only 5% of lifers' investments in green asset, French central banks says
Introduce a carbon tax, Scor's Kessler responds
NZAOA calls for policy instruments to support carbon pricing
Günther Thallinger has said, though, a common carbon pricing standard is a "fantasy" request.
Ukraine war fails to dent unit-linked popularity, EIOPA report shows
Financial Stability Report in June reveals 0.57% median return on total assets in 2021
Allianz invests in ESG data company ESG Book
ESG data market expected to grow $5bn by 2025
Brookfield closes $15bn carbon transition fund
Said to be largest private fund of its kind in the world
'Keep calm and carry on,' say US insurers
Insurers should look to long-term allocations as markets tank
LGIM launches two ESG focused funds
The funds will invest in equities and alternatives
Resolution Life will help manage market risks on $1.1bn Dai-ichi Life book
First deal in Japan for UK reinsurer
Mirova acquires clean energy debt manager
The manager will look to develop an emerging markets investment platform in the future
UN assistant secretary-general calls for insurers' investments in renewables
But insurers are little convinced of the value of those assets
German insurers buying "less attractive, less profitable" infrastructure as demand beats supply
BaFin says outsourcing important as insurers can "hardly provide necessary specialist knowledge" for some projects
Nominations open for Insurance Asset Risk Awards 2022
Deadline 5 August 2022
SEC climate rules not wanted by insurers
III says insurers promote net-zero via investments and already have sufficient disclosure
L&G invests further in ground source heat pumps
Bringing total amount invested in The Kensa Group to £15.7m
Allianz Real Estate increases AuM by 40% in UK
Performance driven by diversification across sectors, asset manager says
Hanse Merkur unit sets €500m target on social property fund
Spezialfonds already has seeding for eight local projects
Varma sets absolute emission reduction targets for entire portfolio
In updated 2030 climate investment policy
Japan Post Insurance establishes real estate asset manager
In joint venture with Mitsui & Co.
Chart of the Week - How Russians react in a crisis
Russia's insurers see unit-linked sales slump as interest rates leap
Not here to dictate on investments, US insurance commissioner says
Inflation voted greatest threat to global insurer stability at IAIS meeting
No chance of meeting 1.5 degrees scenario
Insurers told at IAIS's global seminar
Analysis
Things might go wrong, but if we live to see another day, it's all good - GSAM's Siegel says
Mike Siegel, global head of Goldman Sachs Insurance Asset Management, discusses the asset manager's annual insurance survey results, why inflation is the canary down the coalmine, and the risk of recession on the horizon.
IAR EMEA: Prepare for a tough ride, economist warns
Swiss Re's chief economist Europe, Charlotte Müller told the audience at Insurance Asset Risk's 2022 EMEA conference to expect a recession, but not all speakers agreed. Abbie Wood reports
Inflation - simply transitory or a permanent headache on the horizon?
The debate on whether current inflation is a transitory phenomenon or a structural shift came to life at Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2022 conference, where panelists discussed potential investment implication of each scenarios.
Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2022 Conference round up
The conference was held in London on 13 June and highlighted how investment opportunities still abound for insurers in an environment of heightened volatility and a bleak macro outlook for the coming months. Vincent Huck reports
CIO interview: Tweaks around the margins in times of volatility
David Czerniecki, chief investment officer at Nassau Financial Group, in the second part of a two-part interview, discusses the current environment of inflation, rising rates and a potential recession, and how these impact today's investment decisions
From Lincoln to COVID - Insurance investing is a long-term game
David Czerniecki, chief investment officer at Nassau Financial Group, discusses in the first part of a two-part interview, his focus since joining the group in 2019, and how to hold your breath through a global pandemic.
From Goldman Sachs point of view....
Mike Siegel, global head of Goldman Sachs Insurance Asset Management, discusses the acquisition of NN IP - the single largest acquisition Goldman Sachs has made since 2000. Interview by Vincent Huck
Putin rams spanner into 2022's recovery
Late last year Generali predicted that "our social and economic lives will slowly normalise in 2022", and described the threat of stagflation as "overrated". Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February scuppered any chance of that normalisation.
Stomaching volatility
Volatility, volatility everywhere and not a time to think. Guardian Life's CIO, Jean LaTorre, is dealing with what could be an unprecedented year of market storms, just two years into the job. Sarfraz Thind reports
Fossil remains - why coal, oil and gas are still insurers' 'dirty little secret'
Whisper it quietly, but old energy investments may have been a dividend-godsend to many CIOs starved of yield elsewhere, David Walker discovers