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  • EPP considers facilitating access to PE for insurers' investments

    03 July 2024

    Draft document for next legislature reveals

  • Solvency II reforms fail to embed double materiality, ShareAction says

    28 December 2023

    Final political trilogue establishing the shape of Solvency II are a reversion to single materiality, Caroline Metz says, amidst a growing ESG backlash in Europe

  • Proposed EU Solvency II reforms a missed opportunity for transition plans, ShareAction says

    28 November 2023

    Responsible investment campaigner says proposals last week stop short of requiring insurers to divest from fossil fuels

  • AGMs increasingly contentious arena, Axa IM says

    14 August 2023

    Divide between US and Europe on ESG resolutions, societal issues and regulatory pressures increasingly large part of considerations in 2023

  • Comment - Brussels sprouts green proposals for Solvency II reform

    19 July 2023

    Brussels vote bets almost all chips on 'green' - and implies insurers should do the same

  • Solvency II sustainability amendments "a missed opportunity", campaigners say

    19 July 2023

    According to advocacy groups, despite new requirements around transition planning

  • Solvency II review rapporteur gets spiky with EIOPA

    31 August 2022

    European members of parliament are back from their summer holidays, and there promises to be a heated debate on Solvency II before the review even goes to trilogue. Vincent Huck reports

  • Interview: EU rethinks regulatory priorities in light of COVID-19

    12 May 2020

    Elizabeth Gillam, head of EU government relations and public policy at Invesco, discusses the European Union re-prioritisation of work streams in light of the COVID-19 crisis, and why sustainability will come out on top. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • COVID-19 will spur sustainability work at EU level

    01 May 2020

    Invesco head of public policy says, as Solvency II 2020 review delayed

  • EU bodies seal preliminary agreement on cross-border fund distribution

    07 February 2019

    Text to pass through technical trilogue before first reading in EU Parliament