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Just Group completes buy-in with Haberdashers Company Pension Scheme

Deal valued at £3m

COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Benelux insurers praise outsourcing partners

As Benelux CIOs generally got better news in 2023 and 2022, back-slapping for mandate managers seemed the order of the day

Folksam units back Swedish VC fund focused on climate themes

Investment came from various units of the Swedish insurance group

Cash is king again some CIOs say, as banks actually pay insurers interest

Solvency reports reveal celebrations as CIOs earn interest in banks

Benelux insurers' investment capital bills gyrate, in time with markets, in 2022

Some insurers faced triple-digit hikes in interest rates SCRs as equities and spread risks dramatically gave way, David Walker reports

News round-up - 20 May 2021

Macif; L&G; ASI; Allianz RE; LGC; Helvetia; PGIM; Allianz Italy; Baloise; Barings

Macif joins an environmental French think tank

US insurers timidly assessing climate risk

From 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.

The days of an easy life for European non-life investment teams are over

As many non-life insurers come to rely on their investment performance for an ever greater slice of their total profits, or to make up for underwriting losses, investment teams are looking at new asset classes with the help of external managers. Far greater transparency about the insurers' business practices is offering a unique glimpse into what they want and to whom they outsource this key task. David Walker reports