Archive

  • Insurance & Climate Risk EMEA conference: Should regulators lead on impact investment

    05 December 2018

    Panellists split on industry led and mandatory approach

  • UN’s environmental agency launches insurers group

    13 November 2018

    To develop climate risk assessment tools

  • One tenth of the world’s 500 largest asset managers are insurers

    30 October 2018

    Assets of the largest insurers globally grew by 48% in 2017, according to WTW's research

  • Low investment return dents QBE's profits

    16 August 2018

    Insurer blames rising US and UK interest rates, market volatility and widening credit spreads

  • Australia’s largest insurers’ profits bolstered by investment returns

    13 August 2018

    Smaller insurers earned higher returns from underwriting activities, but earned lower returns from investment and suffered greater losses.

  • Australian and New Zealand financial sectors commit to sustainable finance roadmap

    27 July 2018

    Impact investing has grown from $1.2bn in 2015 to $5.8bn in 2017 according to local impact investing association

  • QBE commits A$100m to impact investing

    21 May 2018

    Wishes of millennials help guide decision

  • QBE's LatAm divestment likely to hit investment yield

    26 February 2018

    Growth assets generated double-digit net returns in 2017

  • Insurers target improved ALM and private assets to enhance investment profits

    27 September 2017

    Blackrock's 2017 Global Insurance Survey reveals some telling figures regarding insurers' attitudes towards the role of the investment function, and how they plan to manipulate their activities to improve profitability. Asa Gibson reports

  • QBE issues green bonds to buy green bonds

    21 April 2017

    Becomes first global insurer to launch green bond