Archive

• French regulator tightens screws on insurers and greenwashing risk

  24 June 2024

  Retail investment products form the focus on group organised by the ACPR and AMF

• LGIM acquires French wind farm and completes financing of Spanish wind portfolio

  13 July 2023

  With NordLB adding €50m in debt facilities to the L&G NTR Clean Power (Europe) Fund

• French insurer's FX risk leaps 360% on Asian sustainable fund move

  25 November 2022

  Underwriter's equity risk more than doubles, too

• France's new financial regulator head says time for green checks on sector

  19 October 2022

  "Everyone wanted to be greener than green," Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani says

• Länsförsäkringar CFO becomes acting CEO after top-echelon discord

  15 February 2022

  Fredrik Bergström also leaves the Swedish trade body

• French underwriters axed nearly €1bn of coal exposure in 2020

  29 December 2021

  Divestments happened at fastest rate since at least 2015

• Gjensidige considers selling part-stake in property manager

  27 October 2021

  Norwegian outsources real estate investing to Oslo Areal and property funds

• CIO interview: Balancing internal and external clients at an insurer's affiliate

  20 April 2021

  SCOR decided to fully centralise the investment process at group level in 2008, and open asset management services to third-party clients in 2011. Francois De Varenne, in charge of today's €20bn investment portfolio, explains the rational around the decision, how it went about building the current structure. Interview by Vincent Huck

• French prudential and financial regulators dissect firms' coal policies

  29 October 2020

  French financial sector exposure to coal sector less than 1% of assets combined

• Schroders acquires majority stake in Asian property investor

  06 July 2020

  Joins other asset managers in increasing interest in the Far East