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Has ESG become the ugly duckling of sustainability?
21 November 2024Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's recent Responsible Investing for Insurers event discuss the difference between ESG and Impact Investing, as well as some of the challenges they are facing while building out their impact portfolios
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IAR Responsible Investing for Insurers 2024 round-up
21 October 2024Conference audience hears key challenges and opportunities in sustainability
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Looking for a home for natural capital in insurers' investment portfolios
12 March 2024Understanding 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
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Feeding the birds: How geospatial data is key to making investments more biodiverse
18 December 2023Biodiversity 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
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Zurich's SST ratio leaps 55pp as all local units' ratios improved in 2022
01 May 2023Reinsurer sells Canadian govvies to benefit from reinvestment rates
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IAR Investing in Real Assets 2022: Day 1 round up
05 April 2022Online conference taking place on 5th and 6th April
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IAR's Investing in Real Assets conference 2022 starts today
05 April 2022Join us for two days of panel discussions on latest trends
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Insurers define the 'central bank gambit'
21 February 2022In an environment of heightened inflation and rising rates, should insurers play defensively against the central banks' next moves?
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Mainland China turns Hong Kong insurers green - with desire
22 December 2021As 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
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Climate transition: insurers should lobby government and engage corporates
19 November 2020Insurers have made progress on investment side but more effort needed in underwriting, Zurich head of sustainability says