News

• Impact of pandemic on insurer solvency still to be fully measured, warns ACPR

  07 December 2020

  French regulator also notes no changes in asset allocation by French insurers year on year

• Phoenix reports 4.5% bond downgrades in shareholder portfolio

  04 December 2020

  British insurer also announced commitment to net-zero carbon investment portfolio by 2050

• Japanese life insurers' capitalisation improved in H1 2020 but still weak to market shocks

  04 December 2020

  Movement away from domestic bonds to foreign becoming increasingly transparent

• Insurers reveal investment disappointments of pandemic

  03 December 2020

  LV, VIG and QIC Global aim fire and ire at property fund suspensions, some EM credit and debt yields

• Investments in Chinese ESG ETFs increased 464%, Ping An says

  03 December 2020

  Research showed all ESG funds performed above market average

• L&G commits to halving £81bn annuity portfolio carbon emissions by 2030

  03 December 2020

  Legal & General Retirement publishes its ESG policy handbook

• Barings to open Singapore office

  03 December 2020

  To serve as gateway for Southeast Asia investment opportunities

• Climate reporting 'more onerous for insurers than Solvency II'

  02 December 2020

  And "numbers on physical risk too scary to disclose" ICR's audience told

• Axa IMRA acquires JPY 22bn Tokyo data centre

  02 December 2020

  Brings asset manager's Japanese property acquisitions in 2020 to JPY 173bn

• 43% of global re/insurance assets covered by divestment policies

  02 December 2020

  Insure Our Future publishes annual scorecard on insurers' climate policies