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Efrag advises Commission on equity investments accounting under IFRS 9
05 February 2020Review of the non-recycling treatment of equity instruments recommended
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Schroders holds first closing of pan-European hotel fund
24 January 2020It received €300m of equity commitments from institutional investors
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Schroders appoints deputy head of credit for Europe
15 January 2020Julien Houdain, previously at LGIM, will work under Patrick Vogel
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Schroders appoints Francine Wu as chairman of Taiwan branch
09 January 2020She is the first local to chair the unit
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Sustainable investing top priority for insurers
17 December 201978% believe importance of sustainable investing will increase in next five years
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Geopolitical turbulence and global slowdown biggest fears for 2020
16 December 2019Insurers have lower confidence in ability to generate returns, according to Schroders
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Q&A: the love affair between US insurers and structured products
24 October 2019Michelle Russell-Dowe, head of securitised credit at Schroders, discusses the benefits of structured products for insurers’ investments and warns of growing risk in the market. Interview by Sarfraz Thind
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LGIM appoints chief risk officer
23 October 2019Margaret Ammon joins from M&G
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Amendments to Solvency II to move the dial on insurers’ equity holdings?
22 October 2019European insurers’ equity holdings remained stable between 2017 and 2018 according to research by Insurance Risk Data, but could the recent amendments to Solvency II rules increase their appetite for the asset class? Vincent Huck reports
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The cost of equity in insurers’ SCRs
23 September 2019What is the correlation between equity holdings in investment portfolios and the weight of market risk in insurers’ solvency capital requirements? Daisy Blake, Insurance Risk Data quantitative research analyst, looks for answers in European non-life insurers’ filings.