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French insurers launch biodiversity investing initiative

Group will issue a call to asset managers by the end of July 2024 for innovative methods of taking biodiversity into account

VPV promotes Allianz Leben alumnus to its supervisory board

Olaf Schmitz has been responsible for asset management, actuarial and products at VPV's life insurer

Changes in MS&AD bond holdings do not deter revisions to full-year forecasts

Losses and impairments affected Mitsui Sumitomo Primary Life last reporting year

S.A. Meacock warns of deterrents to investors in underwriting risk

Lloyd's syndicate posted 100.8% combined ratio, from strengthening prior-year reserves, in 2023

Meiji Yasuda aims for JPY 800bn ESG investments by March 2027

Recently released management plan also outlines plan to grow business overseas

Comment - What CIOs could learn from Japanese insurers - and Dolly Parton

Why "5pm is the new 7pm" for knocking off at one Japanese non-lifer

PIC completes £510m buy-in with Next Group pension plan

US lifers' ratings likely safe from CRE losses, Fitch says

Despite "material exposure" higher than European insurance sector's

Pension schemes accelerating time to buy-in or buy-out

Research from L&G finds 38% of respondents planning for a bulk annuity deal over next three years

Planet's largest investors "absolutely" have enough financial firepower to combat, and pay for, warming climate, Swiss Re says

Reinsurer's Moses Ojeisekhoba says climate-infrastructure benefits societies broadly, boosting yields on other local assets