Archive

  • Higher interest rates hit NN's asset book

    16 February 2017

    Some €4bn wiped from the insurer's portfolio

  • NN IP appoints chief executive

    16 February 2017

    Stan Beckers will retire on 1 April

  • Allied World loses CIO

    01 February 2017

    John Gauthier departed "without cause under his employment agreement"

  • Allianz GI continues renewable energy asset drive

    31 January 2017

    Insurer completes third renewable energy asset deal in three months

  • Hard Brexit and time for Trump

    19 January 2017

    The uncertainties that flowed into 2017 as a result of the unexpected events of 2016 are beginning to become clearer, and insurers can begin to adjust their asset allocation accordingly. Asa Gibson reports

  • NN IP to assign ESG score to infrastructure assets

    13 January 2017

    Firm's debt infrastructure team is looking into a grading system

  • M&G and Aviva spend £200m on London hotels

    12 January 2017

    Assets provide 'long term, inflation-linked income from undoubted covenants'

  • Sega drives Conning to new frontiers

    11 January 2017

    Rich Sega has been driving Conning towards a more diversified asset base to meet the challenges that US insurers face in the low yield environment. He talks to Sarfraz Thind about the shifting demands of US insurers.

  • 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.