News

• 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

• Manulife IM purchases Quebec residential complex for CAD 63m

  19 November 2020

  Multifamily investments show resiliency through market cycles, asset manager says

• Credit portfolio top of mind this year, Aviva's Blanc says

  19 November 2020

  CEO highlights worrying sectors and where investment opportunities lie