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Covéa agrees not to vote against Scor ballots as part of peace deal
11 June 2021French mutual insurer holds 8.4% of reinsurer's shares
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CIO interview: Balancing internal and external clients at an insurer's affiliate
20 April 2021SCOR decided to fully centralise the investment process at group level in 2008, and open asset management services to third-party clients in 2011. Francois De Varenne, in charge of today's €20bn investment portfolio, explains the rational around the decision, how it went about building the current structure. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Insurers' GA - cost or opportunity for affiliated asset managers?
14 April 2021Unlike banks, insurers enjoy a close relationship with their affiliated asset managers, to the point that an insurer's CIO can also be the manager's CEO. Although not prohibited by law, this arrangement raises ethical concerns - ones that regulators are well aware of. Vincent Huck reports
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SCOR renews Paris School of Economics chair
29 March 2021Focusing on macroeconomic risks in an "environment more uncertain than ever"
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People moves round-up - 03 March 2021
03 March 2021Sun Life; Scor; Met Life IM
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Scor appoints second woman to executive committee
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Scor boosting corporate bond holdings as reinvestment yield languishes
24 February 2021Total returns fall from 3% to 2.8% during 2020
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43% of global re/insurance assets covered by divestment policies
02 December 2020Insure Our Future publishes annual scorecard on insurers' climate policies
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Scor reveals reinvestment freeze at height of pandemic crisis
06 November 2020French underwriter's reinvestment yield is now 1.4%
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Mid-sized French insurers take their general accounts off-piste
28 October 2020A research report by Insurance Risk Data reveals how chief investment officers at smaller French insurers are hungry for more than just French govvies. David Walker reports