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  • It's complicated: Avalanche of reforms test US insurers relationship with NAIC

    07 October 2024

    US insurers are currently facing an avalanche of new regulations to assimilate into their practice

  • CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'

    02 May 2024

    In severe 'Nat Cat years' before 2023, CIOs at Lloyd's acted as 'cash registers', disgorging cash to meet steep property claims. Last year, a 'break in the weather' let them 'take stock', and many seized that 'down-time' to progress climate-investing with managers and funds

  • Nippon Life makes recruitment push for investment sales staff

    06 March 2024

    Japanese lifer's affiliate aiming to support Tokyo's national asset management ambitions

  • Comment: Share prices suggest insurers' shareholders might not care much about the 'G' in ESG

    26 February 2024

    Shareholders of Japan's insurers pocketed 150% since Q1 2020 while the Topix made 98% - so do the sector's governance issues matter?

  • Japanese watchdog gets 21 takers for ESG data code of conduct

    22 January 2024

    Code's founding technical committee chaired by professor Tetsuo Kitagawa of Aoyama Gakuin University

  • Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference round up

    26 September 2023

    The conference was held in New York on 26 September and highlighted key opportunities in private markets as well as challenges in the regulatory space

  • Zurich UK switches almost $1bn to new ESG index

    20 July 2021

    Passive US equity mandates moved to DWS fund tracking new MSCI index

  • US insurers warmly welcome outsourced managers for climate change investing

    06 January 2021

    US insurers are buying ever more services from asset managers, data vendors and research houses to help understand climate change and inform their investment decisions, David Walker discovers.

  • Aberdeen Standard Investments to launch seven sustainable index funds

    12 November 2020

    Each fund to track customised MSCI indices

  • Asian real estate prospects overshadowed by climate risk

    04 March 2020

    Today's real estate opportunities in the Far East might come at a cost tomorrow