Archive

  • Canadian insurance Co-Op publishes climate commitment

    30 November 2018

    The Co-operators to boost investments in renewables and green buildings

  • UN’s environmental agency launches insurers group

    13 November 2018

    To develop climate risk assessment tools

  • Climate risk: how insurers are failing to join the dots on the investment side

    12 April 2017

    The quantification of climate-related risks is strategically important for insurers in terms of underwriting and investing performance, but the industry is accused of not leveraging its underwriting expertise to benefit its asset allocation strategy. Environmental Finance's Peter Cripps reports

  • Insurers and regulators join to discuss data concerns

    13 March 2017

    First Solvency II annual returns, risk modelling and IFRS 17 to be examined

  • What are the ESG alternatives to renewables and divestment?

    14 December 2016

    Hot on the heels of the FSB's guide to incorporating climate risks in investment decisions, Environmental Finance's Peter Cripps examines some of the alternative strategies being executed by insurers to reduce their exposures to risks stemming from climate change.

  • Investing in a changing climate

    12 December 2016

    The response by insurers' investment operations to climate change has been branded embarrassing. Environmental Finance's Peter Cripps investigates what the industry can do on the asset side of the balance sheet to mitigate climate change risks in the first of a two-part analysis.

  • Allianz closes first debt investment in Sweden

    20 September 2016

    Real Estate business lends $80m to shopping centre, provides geographic diversification

  • L&G set to buy Reading office building

    08 May 2015

    One of several recent purchases