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  • US insurers fossil fuel holdings revealed

    08 August 2023

    In new report questioning the dichotomy between underwriting and investment policies

  • Democrats take aim at insurers with fossil fuel disclosure bill

    27 July 2023

    Polluter Portfolio Disclosure Act introduced after insurers withdraw insurance coverage from California due to catastrophe exposure

  • Ricardo Lara reveals California's fossil fuel investors

    19 April 2022

    Green bond holders also unearthed in annual study

  • Private equity continues to grow as US insurers' asset of choice

    22 June 2021

    Insurers increased PE holding by 14.8% last year, according to AM Best

  • US insurers splurged on vaccine-maker shares in 2020

    09 June 2021

    Companies including USAA, State Farm and Chubb sought to profit off pandemic drug companies

  • COMMENT: Hedge fund activists - new, unlikely allies in insurers' climate fight?

    04 June 2021

    Patient insurers and agitating activists once sat at opposite ends of the shareholding spectrum. Climate change might be changing that.

  • US insurers have $89.2bn invested in coal, NGO research finds

    25 February 2021

    US underwriters account for 8% of all investments in the sector

  • Fossil fuel exclusion proves a slow burn for US insurers

    03 October 2019

    US insurers say they are ready to stop investing in climate-harming coal. But only one has divested from the fossil fuel to date. Could Chubb’s move be the start of a wider transition by US insurers away from fossil fuels or is it empty talk? Sarfraz Thind reports.