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French insurers continue push into unit-linked world
23 August 2019But their net sales of investment products slowed appreciably in 2018
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Lowering SII capital charges for equity top priority for French regulator
16 July 2019Bernard Delas, vice president at ACPR, highlights the key priorities for Solvency II 2020 review
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Regulators' role in preventing greenwashing
04 July 2019The French regulator's director for research and risk analysis Laurent Clerc explains the difficulty of acting on the climate change imperative and the challenges for the regulator to monitor 'greenwashing'. Interview by Vincent Huck
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French regulators to monitor firms' climate-related commitments
04 July 2019ACPR and AMF launch two commissions and announce a joint action protocol to tackle greenwashing
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French regulator calls on insurers 'to sharpen up' their climate risk strategies
11 April 2019The ACPR has also been scrutinising insurers’ investment strategies, in relation to climate risk
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Green bond strategies split French CIOs and CROs
09 April 2019The difference in approach between insurers' risk and investment functions has been revealed at an event organised by the French institute of actuaries, in partnership with Schroders and Axa. This examined insurers' strategies to integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. Vincent Huck reports
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13% of European insurance assets exposed to climate risk
04 April 2019Eiopa tells French insurers at Paris conference
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French insurers cut allocation to financials’ debt
08 January 2019Regulator reveals French insurers invested €2.5trn in the first half of 2018
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Insurance supervisors support climate risk disclosure guidance
26 July 2017Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures proposes voluntary disclosure of climate risks for insurers
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Private debt blues
19 July 2017Private debt seems the perfect fit for insurance investors with its long-term horizon, better-than-average returns and graspable risk for those used to dealing with fixed income. Yet the regulatory stance on the asset has not been overly clear so far. Sarfraz Thind reports