News

  • COVID a chance to pick cheap assets, but don't anticipate high returns

    24 November 2020

    Schroders' Institutional Investor Study reveals insurance investors' expectations

  • Helvetia buys into peer-to-peer insurance provider

    24 November 2020

    Swiss underwriter wants market intelligence about younger buyers, and P2P models

  • MS&AD vows to keep cutting strategic equity

    24 November 2020

    While Japanese rivals Orix Life and Sumitomo Life are adding to PE

  • US insurer liquidity risk at post-2008 highs

    23 November 2020

    Fed warns of increased difficulty of meeting claims as illiquid assets shoot past 12-year highs

  • Aviva Vita - a life not so dolce with BTP spreads

    23 November 2020

    Aviva plans selling the unit for €400m to Unicredit

  • Sumitomo Life and SBI Investment create joint venture fund

    20 November 2020

    To invest in start-ups including wellness companies

  • Polluting companies banned from Chinese insurers' PE portfolios

    20 November 2020

    CBIRC spells out environmental blacklist for private equity portfolios

  • Chart: UK insurers' allocation to EEA decreases

    20 November 2020

    But Brexit not the sole driver of the trend

  • Neither doom nor boom for European insurers in 2021

    19 November 2020

    But market volatility and credit risk will be key high-risks next year, S&P warns

  • Climate transition: insurers should lobby government and engage corporates

    19 November 2020

    Insurers have made progress on investment side but more effort needed in underwriting, Zurich head of sustainability says