News

• "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

• MassMutual looking to sell asset manager unit

  10 August 2018

  Deal on OppenheimerFunds could be worth more than $5bn

• Widening spread of Italian debt takes big toll on capital ratios

  10 August 2018

  But hasn’t materially deteriorated insurers’ underlying risk profile, according to Moody’s

• Climate change impacts asset value, UN study finds

  09 August 2018

  Insurers increasingly ESG screen their investments, but even the value of their favoured asset is at risk

• Negative FX impacts Zurich's AuM

  09 August 2018

  Investment result increase by 16%

• Hannover Re 3.1% RoI for H1 beats expectation

  09 August 2018

  But realised gains and investment income dropped by 36% and 4% respectively