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QBE looks to re-stock growth assets to 15% of pot
11 August 2022Infrastructure, shares, property and alts comprise 11% now
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Comment - What insurers can learn from the furore about HSBC AM and climate change
01 June 2022Any insurers arguing climate change doesn't matter are shooting at their own feet
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Comment - Australia may (finally) act on climate change as elections change government
23 May 2022CIOs should help finance renewables - it's in their own interest, after all
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Fossil remains - why coal, oil and gas are still insurers' 'dirty little secret'
19 May 2022Whisper it quietly, but old energy investments may have been a dividend-godsend to many CIOs starved of yield elsewhere, David Walker discovers
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Comment - The Devil, insurers and coal, and the Deep Blue Sea
10 May 2022With governments letting them down, insurers face no easy choices in their ability to tackle climate change
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Lloyd's syndicates outline actions and plans for LIBOR's end
06 April 2022Syndicates struggled to beat it, while getting rid of exposure to it, in 2021
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QBE's PE storms to 16% return as alternatives shine
18 February 2022Plans more than doubling risk asset allocation in 2022/2023
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Investors to benefit as Asia ILS market comes to life
10 January 2022Investing in insurance-linked securities (ILS) was once about natural catastrophe risk, but in Asia, practitioners expect far greater diversity in life/non-life risks being packaged, with help from insurers and regulators alike, they tell David Walker
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Carbon allowances - insurers slowly warm to the net-zero opportunity
06 December 2021The European benchmark price for carbon allowances hit a record high in November, but only one insurer acknowledges investing in them and others seem coy, so far, to deep their toes in, as Vincent Huck finds out
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IAR Americas: Cautious optimism in credit markets
27 October 2021Since the health crisis of COVID-19 snowballed into an economic crisis, credit markets have seen their base shaken, but insurers retain some confidence, not without caution though. Vincent Huck reports