Archive

  • Green shoots appear for biodiversity investing - but is it the natural habitat for insurers?

    26 June 2023

    It seems like it's on everyone's lips, but where should investors start to think about biodiversity, when it comes to investing in positive-impact assets? Josh Adcock asks asset owners and managers where they see opportunities flourishing, and how to weed out the wrong strategies

  • Europe's insurers expanded top- and bottom-grade bonds in Q4 2022, EIOPA finds

    26 June 2023

    Authority also reveals three stress-test results for energy-intensive sector bonds

  • EIOPA acknowledges CRE prices have peaked

    26 June 2023

    From 2017 main insurers saw upward annual revaluations of commercial/office holdings hit 5%

  • EIOPA reveals AT1 and troubled-bank exposure of Europe's insurers

    26 June 2023

    Financial Stability Report reveals ongoing selling of bank paper exposure by EEA undertakings

  • LGIM launches "scientific" ETF with Gerd Kommer Invest

    23 June 2023

    Based on the "world portfolio concept", investing across developed and emerging markets

  • Insurers' alternatives allocations defy attraction of higher core yields

    23 June 2023

    EEA undertakings hold nearly €500bn in alternative funds, EIOPA data reveals

  • EEA insurers turn net sellers of govvies and non-bank credit for first time in Solvency II history

    23 June 2023

    EEA insurers turn net sellers of govvies and non-bank credit for first time in Solvency II history

  • Chart of the Week - EIOPA reveals gilts/liquidity crisis' effect on EEA insurers

    23 June 2023

    EIOPA's mid-year Financial Stability Report examines how far govies back repo trades among EEA insurers

  • Talanx invests in Swedish hydropower

    22 June 2023

    Via Ampega AM and in partnership Augusta IM and Uniper

  • MetLife CIO inheritors split realm in three

    22 June 2023

    As Steven Goulart retires at end of August, with the search continuing for MIM president