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  • Green shoots for insurers' understanding of natural capital?

    25 November 2024

    Comparisons between investors' grip on climate and biodiversity show there's plenty of areas in which to grow on the latter, but lessons and benefits can be taken from net-zero approaches

  • Has ESG become the ugly duckling of sustainability?

    21 November 2024

    Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's recent Responsible Investing for Insurers event discuss the difference between ESG and Impact Investing, as well as some of the challenges they are facing while building out their impact portfolios

  • Insurance Asset Risk's RI For Insurers: planning and implementing transition strategy

    19 November 2024

    Brendan Abadie, sustainable investments analyst, Phoenix Group, and Insurance Asset Risk staff writer Josh Adcock, were discussing financed emissions versus climate solution enablers, defining transition assets, and competing for assets with banks

  • The meaning of responsible investing

    12 November 2024

    As envisioned by insurers

  • The next step in impact? Catalysing scale

    22 October 2024

    M&G's Catalyst believes the climate transition is "arguably the greatest commercial opportunity in history", as it looks to carve out a niche in funding the scale-up of innovative businesses

  • Sustainability Charter for the bulk annuity process

    01 October 2024

    Cléo Fitzsimons, head of sustainability at PIC, describes the benefits of the recently adopted charter

  • 2024: ESG Indicators (PAIs) Reach New Data Quality Heights for Alternative Investments"

    16 September 2024

    While discussions around "whether and how well alternative investments funds deliver Principal Adverse Impact KPIs (PAIs) via the European ESG Template (EET)" feel as if they happened just yesterday, EU Article 4 SFDR investors such as life insurers and pension funds already published their second PAI statement for 2023.

  • Private market impact investing is no longer a PE, EM game

    04 September 2024

    Managers highlight impact opportunities in private credit and say blended finance is no longer the only way

  • Battery energy storage: Is it ready for primetime?

    12 August 2024

    Insurers seem split on if the time is right to invest in battery energy storage, or if the risks are still too great

  • From the Gothic Dom Tower to wind and solar farms, the a.s.r. way

    07 August 2024

    How the dutch insurer is navigating its way through renewables investing in the Netherlands