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  • Chart of the week: ESG is here... but what is ESG?

    24 June 2022

    Is there a shared end-goal on sustainability?

  • The insurance investor's tale on ESG

    23 March 2022

    Simon Tighe came 600 years late to feature in Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century classic, The Canterbury Tales - but his story of the eponymous re/insurer's ESG development is as engaging for David Walker

  • GSAM commits to Ping An's private equity fund

    29 October 2021

    Chinese insurer keeps China Fortune impairment steady in Q3

  • COMMENT: Infrastructure boosted by its own G7 injection

    14 June 2021

    Joe Biden clears insurer CIOs' path to sustainable EM infrastructure

  • The return of private equity

    24 May 2021

    Private equity has been cited as the hottest asset choice for US insurers for a while. This year it seems to be justifying the optimism. Returns have been stellar, but can the asset maintain its position as the alternative of choice? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • It was all 'keep calm and carry on' for insurers in H1, GSAM's Comon says

    01 September 2020

    If insurers were ever characterised as slow to move and tardy to change, Goldman Sachs Asset Management head of insurance for EMEA Etienne Comon has another perspective. He talks to David Walker about the challenges insurers faced in H1 2020 and how their speedy reaction has aided resilience.

  • American insurers still lagging on ESG investing, Goldman finds

    16 July 2020

    Nearly 40% say ESG not considered in investment process

  • ESG investing a primary consideration for only 5% of insurers

    25 April 2019

    GSAM's research finds 57% of insurers globally consider ESG investing as one of several investment considerations

  • Insurers’ investment risk awareness on the rise, GSAM survey finds

    24 April 2019

    But GSAM Insurance Asset Management research finds outsourcing growth only accelerating in Asia

  • MetLife prioritises ESG over hedge funds

    11 May 2018

    MetLife's CIO Steve Goulart talks about the continued drive towards ESG investments as well as the company's plan to develop its third-party asset management business. By Paul Walsh and Sarfraz Thind