News

• EU's latest review of Solvency II to increase reporting burdens

  14 December 2023

  Changes made to unlock green and digital investment, but sustainability risk reporting will increase operational burden, Insurance Europe says

• PIC completes £65m buy-in with Chemring Group pension scheme

  14 December 2023

  Deal covers 485 current pensioners and 328 deferred members

• Mirova-operated fund partners with Great Barrier Reef Foundation to research coral reef biodiversity value

  14 December 2023

  Deal includes AU $100m investment from the Australian government and a project to plant 2 million heat-tolerant corals

• Manulife to dispose of CA $1.7bn in alternative long-duration assets in reinsurance deal

  14 December 2023

  Deal with Global Atlantic, worth CA $13bn, to also transfer CA $1.3bn in assets

• NZAOA releases paper on decarbonisation drivers

  14 December 2023

  Lead authors discuss findings with Insurance Asset Risk

  

• LV= completes second phase of asset transfer to BlackRock

  13 December 2023

  BlackRock was appointed as asset manager by the insurer in April 2023, replacing Columbia Threadneedle Investments

• Second phase of Solvency UK will broaden investment opportunities, L&G group CEO says

  13 December 2023

  Phase two will be a "critical lever", Nigel Wilson says, as phase one is set to become law

• AllianceBernstein appoints Chris Hogbin as global head of investments

  13 December 2023

  Position has been newly created

• Investor-led ASCOR delivers first climate feedback to sovereign bond holders

  13 December 2023

  Research is backed by the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance

• Life insurers not turning away from alternative investments yet, EIOPA says

  12 December 2023

  Many had expected life insurers' "search for yield" would become less pronounced