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Social investing needs to be taken hand-in-hand with broader ESG issues, insurers say
04 December 2023Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's Responsible Investing for Insurers conference discussed the difficulties in sourcing social investing data and developing policy on a global scale
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US Outlook 2020: an encore for investors
15 January 2020Many had bet on the market staging a final whimper last year before recession. But the talk of a global downturn suddenly vanished in the last few months of 2019. Now investors are looking at the market with rosy spectacles and hoping for more rewards in 2020. Sarfraz Thind reports
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The BBB effect: apocalypse or opportunity?
12 March 2019US insurers are holding bigger volumes of BBB-rated corporate debt than at any time in the past. A turning credit cycle could tip significant amounts of these to junk. But while the headline figures look startling, is this really a precursor to the apocalypse or just another bad news story? Sarfraz Thind reports
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Case for insurers to invest in infrastructure highlighted
26 September 2018Geneva Association calls for stronger global consensus around infrastructure policy and funding mechanisms
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Insurers in OECD countries favoured sovereign and corporate bonds in 2017
19 June 2018The asset class accounts for more than half of the insurers’ investments in 34 of the 42 countries monitored