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Expect a year of two halves for 2021—the bad, followed by the impressive
30 December 2020Investment horizon will closely track vaccine rollout, Manulife says
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US insurers will need to up their climate game in 2021
23 December 2020Federal Reserve latest to join FDAP as regulators move to ramp up insurance climate rules
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MetLife IM funds $130m debt placement in US hydroelectric station
23 December 2020Investment made into Louisiana sustainable hydroelectric plant
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Farmers promotes Irakoze Baur to CIO
18 December 2020Will replace retiring Tom Rogers from January
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Axa IMRA acquires $875m US logistics portfolio
17 December 2020Purchased through a real estate investment trust managed by Cabot Properties
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CLOs pose no risk to US insurers despite pandemic
17 December 2020GAO report finds insurer leveraged loans too small to be a threat
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MEAG acquires 50% share of solar park in California
16 December 2020Asset comprises two projects
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Sunlife CIO on the art of catching flying daggers
16 December 2020COVID-19 was the 'known unknown' that Randy Brown, CIO at SunLife, has been preparing for the best part of the last five years. So, when markets went into turmoil in H1 2020 the only question that remained was one of timing: when to catch the falling knife? Interview by Vincent Huck
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US needs to raise rates to offer "any semblance of return," Hartford CEO says
15 December 2020Rates down 125bps in one year, magnitude of decline bites on insurance industry
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US insurers timidly assessing climate risk
14 December 2020From increasingly fierce wildfires in California to recurring hurricane hits to the country's southern and eastern seaboards, US insurers are only too familiar with some intensifying effects of climate change, but are they doing anything about it? David Walker takes the temperature.