Archive

  • Green shoots appear for biodiversity investing - but is it the natural habitat for insurers?

    26 June 2023

    It seems like it's on everyone's lips, but where should investors start to think about biodiversity, when it comes to investing in positive-impact assets? Josh Adcock asks asset owners and managers where they see opportunities flourishing, and how to weed out the wrong strategies

  • AXA IM Alts adds €125m to logistics portfolio with Oslo purchase

    21 June 2023

    Bringing asset manager total European direct equity logistics AuM to €5bn

  • Eurovita revealed as prolific outsourcer with over 150 managers onboard

    19 June 2023

    IVASS suspended redemptions of Italian's policies in Q1

  • Planet's future being run on woeful risk margins compared to Solvency II's, Louise Pryor warns

    19 June 2023

    Actuaries Carbon Collaboration co-chair urges peers that actuaries do not close their eyes to risks

  • CDPQ invests CA $75m in new Montreal bridge

    13 June 2023

    Via bonds issued by construction consortium

  • Actuaries pivotal in aiding climate-adaptation investments, conference told

    06 June 2023

    Professional crucial in identifying usable analytical techniques for evaluating investments

  • Northern exposure - equities bestow mixed blessings on Nordic/Scandinavian insurers in 2022

    15 May 2023

    Markets may have dived as rates, geopolitical tension and inflation rocketed, but Scandinavian and Nordic insurers' faith in equities was not always misplaced. David Walker reports

  • Chart of the Week - When the MA goes 'the wrong way' for Spanish lifers

    28 April 2023

    Ideally the MA, with life liabilities backed by predictable income assets, should improve users' capital coverage. Often, that's not been so in Spain.

  • Robeco voted against 83% of boards' 'Say-on-climate resolutions'

    25 April 2023

    Arguing companies could do better

  • Chart of the week: IFRS 9 classification conundrum in APAC

    14 April 2023

    As IFRS 17 and 9 tops Asian insurers' priority lists, according to Abrdn survey