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Voluntary carbon market craving for clarity, Manulife IM says
25 September 2023Investors increasingly looking "under the hood" of opportunities in that space
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High capital charge preventing US insurers from investing in natural capital
25 September 2023Capital cost incurred too high to justify investments in real assets
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Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) KPIs for Alternative Investments under SFDR
21 September 20232023 has been an extremely important year for Article 4 SFDR investors in the EU such as life insurers, pension funds or alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs). They were required to publish the first Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) statement for the reference year in 2022 no later than 30 June 2023 so that now you have a lot to read on their websites.
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US life insurer key IMR metric falls to 12 year low as bond sales hit
19 September 2023But NAIC rule change will help insurers struggling with negative mark
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Advocacy group takes aim at Sun Life and Manulife's carbon reporting standards
15 September 2023Canadian insurers falling short on sustainable investing
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Lloyd's and Moody's seek industry standard for carbon disclosures
15 September 2023Solution being designed to help insurers tackle increasingly rigorous reporting standards
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Government should ensure SII UK channels insurers' investments to UK assets, BoE says
14 September 2023Despite £100bn commitment to invest in the UK, some of the money could end up overseas
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Baloise Germany appoints interim head of investments
13 September 2023After Julia Wiens departure to BaFin where she'll replace Frank Grund
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CIOs to fasten seatbelts for bumpy landing as Fed spots runway
13 September 2023"The Fed won't hike rates next week," former president of Kansas City Fed predicts. While asset owners are at odds on the likelihood of a recession and asset managers brace themselves for what will not be a "piece of (cheese)cake"
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NAIC notes some insurers "aggressively" taking more risk in CLOs
12 September 2023While exposure to these instruments is expected to have grown by $20bn to $30bn in 2022