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Australia’s general insurers near 10% return on investments
13 November 2019Ranking of portfolio size shows top-heavy industry
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Brexit blows hot and cold for insurers' outsourcing relationships
05 November 2019In the face of growing uncertainties around the date and terms of Brexit, underwriters with UK operations are leaning ever more heavily on their chosen asset managers for help, advice and expertise. David Walker reports
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Scor scales up coal divestment policies
29 April 2019Insurer Scor has strengthened its coal exclusion policies, but it still falls short of alignment with the goals set by the Paris Climate Agreement.
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Lloyd's syndicates $100m outsourcing treasure
18 April 2019In the second part of our two-part series on Lloyd's syndicates and their investments, David Walker analyses their portfolio allocations and performance, uncovering a treasure most asset managers would want a map to.
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Three insurers part of new Australian sustainable finance initiative
28 March 2019IAG, QBE and Swiss Re join banks, superannuation funds and academia in HLEG-style initiative
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UN PSI launches new ESG guide
27 February 2019Calling for the homogeneous integration of ESG factors on both sides of insurers balance sheets
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QBE boosts investment goal after "hitting bottom" end of target in 2018
25 February 2019Australian group also flags growing risk assets
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QBE sets impact investing target at $1bn
18 January 2019Goal is three times higher than previous minimum commitment
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Unrealised losses on bonds restrict reinsurance sector’s overall return
11 January 2019Investment yield appears to have bottomed-out and showed a small uptick to 2.7% in the first nine months of 2018, according to Aon reinsurance outlook
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QBE Insurance moves assets to Brussels in post-Brexit plan
02 January 2019Australian insurer moves more than $1bn of assets to Belgian subsidiary QBE Europe