News

• Low investment return dents QBE's profits

  16 August 2018

  Insurer blames rising US and UK interest rates, market volatility and widening credit spreads

• Aegon reports €67m losses on investments

  16 August 2018

  Due to US treasuries sale leads

• Mid-market corporate lending too "crowded"

  15 August 2018

  Investors should look for smaller, niche sectors, Willis Towers Watson advises

• Call for ESG integration in draft standards for sustainable palm oil

  15 August 2018

  Signatories including insurers' asset managers criticise certification body for being a step behind current corporate policy commitments

• New rule facilitates investments in Argentinian venture capital

  15 August 2018

  Insurers can now invest up to 1% of their net assets in entrepreneurial projects

• "Government lacks urgency and boldness," UK impact investment unit

  14 August 2018

  Taskforce tells the Treasury and Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in interim feedback report

• MEAG and Luxcara structure debt and equity deal for wind farm

  14 August 2018

  Deal includes project bonds worth and privately placed equity investment with the Munich Re group

• Singaporean life insurance insurers' AuM boost

  14 August 2018

  Increase in assets under management strengthens the country’s position as Asia’s financial hub

• Australia’s largest insurers’ profits bolstered by investment returns

  13 August 2018

  Smaller insurers earned higher returns from underwriting activities, but earned lower returns from investment and suffered greater losses.

• Regulatory change to cash reserve rule relieves gains pressure on Talanx

  13 August 2018

  German insurer cuts profit-taking, and ZZR contribution by 69%, ahead of expected law change