Archive

  • Looking for a home for natural capital in insurers' investment portfolios

    12 March 2024

    Understanding new risks, a lack of asset managers able to service these types of investments at scale, and the question of where to include natural capital in the SAA are the hurdles insurers need to overcome, Danielle Brassel, director of responsible investment at Zurich Insurance Group, explains

  • Feeding the birds: How geospatial data is key to making investments more biodiverse

    18 December 2023

    Biodiversity datasets are a new batch of facts and figures for investors to contend with and getting them right often requires a much more local approach

  • Zurich's SST ratio leaps 55pp as all local units' ratios improved in 2022

    01 May 2023

    Reinsurer sells Canadian govvies to benefit from reinvestment rates

  • IAR Investing in Real Assets 2022: Day 1 round up

    05 April 2022

    Online conference taking place on 5th and 6th April

  • IAR's Investing in Real Assets conference 2022 starts today

    05 April 2022

    Join us for two days of panel discussions on latest trends

  • Insurers define the 'central bank gambit'

    21 February 2022

    In an environment of heightened inflation and rising rates, should insurers play defensively against the central banks' next moves?

  • Mainland China turns Hong Kong insurers green - with desire

    22 December 2021

    As the world's second-largest economy pledges to become net-zero by 2060, the Hong Kong Insurance Authority's annual conference heard $1trn of green investing opportunities lie just across the border. David Walker reports

  • Climate transition: insurers should lobby government and engage corporates

    19 November 2020

    Insurers have made progress on investment side but more effort needed in underwriting, Zurich head of sustainability says

  • Sustainability-linked bonds are 'more powerful than green bonds'

    13 November 2020

    The 'use of proceeds' model adopted by most green bonds came under attack, amid allegations that it is susceptible to 'greenwashing'.

  • Assessing climate associated asset risk

    30 October 2020

    Panel sponsored by Royal London Asset Management