News

  • IVASS admits Eurovita rescue talks were "long, and not easy"

    25 July 2023

    Rescuers "acted in awareness of their own interest", IVASS president says

  • European real estate more prepared for downturn than US, says Fidelity

    24 July 2023

    Asset manager says there is "more pain to come in US real estate"

  • PwC UK outlines four possible implementation pathways for MA relaxation in the UK

    24 July 2023

    And associated implications for insurers

  • UnipolSai unit has one-third of investments in BTPs

    24 July 2023

    And making 2.1% more on investment than life policies promise

  • Residential property not yet safe as houses, PIC says

    21 July 2023

    Volatility has yet to pass as retrofitting draws capital away from new building

  • Comment - When non-life insurance policies become long-term costs, for general insurers

    21 July 2023

    A few weeks ago we asked, half-jokingly, what investments could a CIO possibly use, for a life policy bought by Dorian Gray, the character of Oscar Wilde's imagination who trades his soul for eternal life (and youth)?

  • Swiss Life Asset Managers finds sustainable buildings yield higher rents

    21 July 2023

    In newly-published research with University of Cambridge

  • Chart of the Week - SFCRs as EIOPA's answer to the 'Barbenheimer dilemma'

    21 July 2023

    SFCRs will tell you if market crashes hurt insurers' solvency more than pandemics - but not whether to watch Robert Oppenheimer or Margot Robbie...

  • Californian politicians call for forced disclosure of insurer fossil fuel investments

    21 July 2023

    FIO should impose more scrutiny on green assets as insurers exit from climate change-hit states

  • Cash has regenerated as an asset class, Aviva Investors says

    20 July 2023

    In the form money market funds, as interest rates take off