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Vienna Insurance Group enters the 'deep tech scene' with early-stage investment

VIG to issue €500m sustainability bond

To expand investments in socially and ecologically sustainable projects

VIG set to add more than €500m to general account after regional M&A

M&A involved assets as well as liabilities for Austrian insurer

VIG in Poland and C-Quadrat establish asset management JV

Offering will include open-ended funds and long-term savings products

Vienna's investment result falls 25% - but COVID-19 not main culprit

Deconsolidating some property primary cause, group says

Insurers' social investing takes the spotlight in battle against COVID-19

If the pandemic has any silver lining, it is in boosting the prominence of the social aspect of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. David Walker investigates this 'elevation', and whether it will outlast the virus it is being rallied to combat.

The rise of social investing amid COVID-19

Elisabeth Stadler, chief executive of Vienna Insurance Group, has been one of the industry's most long-standing advocates of social investing - the "S" in ESG. As combating COVID-19 heightens the general awareness of socially-minded investing, she discusses the topic with David Walker

Hannover Re defends coal investing

Reply to criticism comes on heels of Vienna Insurance Group's own defence

Austria: Eastern Promise Beckons for Asset Managers

Austrians' expanding businesses in eastern Europe, a commitment to ESG and their suffering at the hands of miserable debt yields, makes the country a market worth investigating in. David Walker reports.

Raising the stakes in fund management

Insurer-affiliated managers are punching above their weight in a competitive market, taking more than one-third of all fund managers' new business in the first three quarters. David Walker examines the evolving relationship between insurer-parents, affiliates and independent managers.