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  • Voluntary carbon market craving for clarity, Manulife IM says

    25 September 2023

    Investors increasingly looking "under the hood" of opportunities in that space

  • High capital charge preventing US insurers from investing in natural capital

    25 September 2023

    Capital cost incurred too high to justify investments in real assets

  • Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) KPIs for Alternative Investments under SFDR

    21 September 2023

    2023 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.

  • US life insurer key IMR metric falls to 12 year low as bond sales hit

    19 September 2023

    But NAIC rule change will help insurers struggling with negative mark

  • Advocacy group takes aim at Sun Life and Manulife's carbon reporting standards

    15 September 2023

    Canadian insurers falling short on sustainable investing

  • Lloyd's and Moody's seek industry standard for carbon disclosures

    15 September 2023

    Solution being designed to help insurers tackle increasingly rigorous reporting standards

  • Government should ensure SII UK channels insurers' investments to UK assets, BoE says

    14 September 2023

    Despite £100bn commitment to invest in the UK, some of the money could end up overseas

  • Baloise Germany appoints interim head of investments

    13 September 2023

    After Julia Wiens departure to BaFin where she'll replace Frank Grund

  • 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"

  • NAIC notes some insurers "aggressively" taking more risk in CLOs

    12 September 2023

    While exposure to these instruments is expected to have grown by $20bn to $30bn in 2022