Archive

  • Efrag advises Commission on equity investments accounting under IFRS 9

    05 February 2020

    Review of the non-recycling treatment of equity instruments recommended

  • Schroders holds first closing of pan-European hotel fund

    24 January 2020

    It received €300m of equity commitments from institutional investors

  • Schroders appoints deputy head of credit for Europe

    15 January 2020

    Julien Houdain, previously at LGIM, will work under Patrick Vogel

  • Schroders appoints Francine Wu as chairman of Taiwan branch

    09 January 2020

    She is the first local to chair the unit

  • Sustainable investing top priority for insurers

    17 December 2019

    78% believe importance of sustainable investing will increase in next five years

  • Geopolitical turbulence and global slowdown biggest fears for 2020

    16 December 2019

    Insurers have lower confidence in ability to generate returns, according to Schroders

  • Q&A: the love affair between US insurers and structured products

    24 October 2019

    Michelle 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

  • LGIM appoints chief risk officer

    23 October 2019

    Margaret Ammon joins from M&G

  • Amendments to Solvency II to move the dial on insurers’ equity holdings?

    22 October 2019

    European 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

  • The cost of equity in insurers’ SCRs

    23 September 2019

    What 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.