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  • 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

  • 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?

  • Spurring sustainable investments with capital charges

    19 September 2019

    The question of capital charges punishing ‘brown’ investments or incentivising ‘green’ investments has come to the fore. While regulators are asking for risk-based evidence, stakeholders are not all in agreement on how to proceed. Vincent Huck reports

  • Zurich tightens coal exclusion policy and bars investments in oil sands and shale oil companies

    26 June 2019

    Swiss insurer lowers exclusion threshold from 50% of revenues or electricity generated from coal to 30%

  • SOFR-linked trades break $1trn a day in first year of operation

    12 April 2019

    FSB chair welcomes Libor alternatives remarkable progress in speech to mark its first anniversary

  • Credit markets will falter in the medium term, warns Zurich

    03 April 2019

    Corporate bond valuations are nearing extremes against a background of weak fundamentals

  • Transitioning from Libor: complex questions and no answers

    21 February 2019

    The discontinuation of Libor will affect trillions of contracts across the global financial industry, Insurance Asset Risk reveals the scope of the impact on insurers and the unanswerable question they face in a transition period filled with uncertainty. Vincent Huck reports

  • Private markets: end of the credit cycle, start of a new era?

    04 June 2018

    Insurers have increasingly invested in private assets in recent years to counter the low yield environment. But as we enter the later stages of the credit cycle, questions are being raised on whether private assets were tactical short-term choices, or if insurers have fully embraced these asset classes. Vincent Huck reports

  • Zurich pledges 10% of its PE allocation to impact investments

    30 September 2015

    Will select private equity fund managers whose strategies promote responsible investment