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  • A.s.r. real estate launches first renewables infrastructure fund

    19 July 2024

    ASR Dutch Green Energy Fund I will target a fund size of at least €800m

  • Aegon shed significant market risk capital in asr deal, but gets €1bn capital bill for stake in rival

    30 May 2024

    The Dutch/Bermudian composite has published its inaugural Bermuda financial condition report

  • Life sciences real estate flourishing but in need of careful tending

    26 February 2024

    Pandemic-induced awareness of biotech R&D combined with long-term demographic trends have put life sciences real estate in the spotlight, but investment here is both delicate

  • Insurers and asset managers urge halt to deep-sea mining talks

    20 July 2023

    Saying poorly-understood environmental impacts of ocean extraction threaten circular economy and are risk for long-term investors

  • French and Dutch insurers using standard formula plough own furrow with GA capital charges

    13 July 2023

    Aesio Mutuelle and ASR Schade apply modified property charges

  • Benelux insurers' investment capital bills gyrate, in time with markets, in 2022

    18 May 2023

    Some insurers faced triple-digit hikes in interest rates SCRs as equities and spread risks dramatically gave way, David Walker reports

  • Three insurers amongst 10 candidates for PRI board positions

    04 October 2021

    Only four positions are open

  • CNP Assurances signs the Finance for Biodiversity Pledge

    07 September 2021

    Sets five-year investment target to help protect biodiversity

  • Dutch insurer warns of ongoing fallout from 'Woekerpolis' unit-linked affair

    30 August 2021

    Affair stretches back nearly 20 years in Netherlands

  • Insurers warm to public disclosure on climate change risks

    11 August 2021

    SFCRs reveal much about European insurers' financial health and, since 2020, also a lot about their preparations to tackle climate change risk, as David Walker finds