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Moody's downgrade of France, the more things change the more they stay the same
18 December 2024Insurers and their asset managers react to the ramifications of the rating change going forward
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Insurers are picking up banks' fossil fuel financing slack
16 December 2024Rainforest Action Network says there is a "shocking lack of transparency about what insurers are underwriting and investing in"
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Does a litigious society pose a greater risk to insurers than global warming?
12 December 2024Insurance Asset Risk recently sat down with Chin Liu, director of insurance-linked securities (ILS), fixed income solutions and responsible investment research at Amundi US to discuss why ILS can be a good investment for life insurers and why eagle-eyed lawyers can pose a bigger risk to insurers than climate change.
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CIO Interview: Conning worried the Fed is not paying enough attention to inflation
09 December 2024Insurance Asset Risk sat down with Cindy Beaulieu, Conning's CIO for North America, to discuss the recent presidential election, the effect a second Trump administration could have on insurers, and the prospects for asset classes and investment risk in 2025.
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Japan's insurers put their weight behind plan for an 'asset management nation'
04 December 2024Tokyo wants Japan to be a nation known for good asset management - a goal that its insurers manifestly desire too
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Til tech do us part - are AI investments a love story for the ages?
02 December 2024Tech stocks and related companies have had ups and downs, with disappoints, broken promises and a summer wobble - but is it love that's here to stay?
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Europe vs the US in 2025: Which is the better placed to boom?
27 November 2024"Lost decade" of poor European equities is over according to DWS's new global CIO, but US could be better placed for growth
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Green shoots for insurers' understanding of natural capital?
25 November 2024Comparisons between investors' grip on climate and biodiversity show there's plenty of areas in which to grow on the latter, but lessons and benefits can be taken from net-zero approaches
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Has ESG become the ugly duckling of sustainability?
21 November 2024Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's recent Responsible Investing for Insurers event discuss the difference between ESG and Impact Investing, as well as some of the challenges they are facing while building out their impact portfolios
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Insurance Asset Risk's RI For Insurers: planning and implementing transition strategy
19 November 2024Brendan Abadie, sustainable investments analyst, Phoenix Group, and Insurance Asset Risk staff writer Josh Adcock, were discussing financed emissions versus climate solution enablers, defining transition assets, and competing for assets with banks
- The NAIC is cooking up a hearty bowl of reform, how should US insurers prepare for the meal?
- Generali Investments acquires stake in US asset manger
- Sumitomo Life outsources for local PE/buyout exposure growth
- Private credit, insurance now make up over half Blackstone, Apollo, KKR and Carlyle portfolio, says Moody's
- M&G Investments appoints Axa alum as CFO
- Man Group warns of challenges ahead for asset-intensive reinsurance
- Generali and BPCE announce world's largest insurance asset management platform
- Markets may have over-estimated Trump growth and inflation impact, RLAM says
- Comment: Unusual US bond issuer plans birth by fire
- L&G launches regional extension to Affordable Housing Fund