Archive

  • No-deal Brexit to reduce UK life insurers’ capital, growth and profit

    01 April 2019

    Market volatility and economic slowdown are the key risks, Moody's Investors Service warns

  • Nippon Life strengthens sustainable investment processes

    01 April 2019

    As Japan becomes the third largest market for sustainable investing

  • Outlook: Flatlining at The New Neutral

    Are markets right to assume the federal funds rate has peaked? Is China the swing factor for growth? Is the trade war passé. These and other questions are answered in PIMCO’s latest outlook.

  • Regulators set to make an ESG offer insurers really can’t refuse

    29 March 2019

    Speakers in Factset and Insurance Asset Risk webinar expect watchdogs to transform ESG voluntary codes into obligations

  • People moves Round-up: 29 March 2019

    29 March 2019

    M&G Prudential, Allianz Global Investors, Axa Investment Managers

  • Folksam Group leads shareholders' charge against ousted Swedbank CEO

    28 March 2019

    Shareholders vote against discharging Birgitte Bonneson of liability just hours after Folksam Group stated its intention to rebel against motion

  • Three insurers part of new Australian sustainable finance initiative

    28 March 2019

    IAG, QBE and Swiss Re join banks, superannuation funds and academia in HLEG-style initiative

  • Natixis poaches Pictet water fund managers to create thematics arm

    28 March 2019

    Natixis is preparing to launch its own water fund as part of its newly-created Thematics Asset Management

  • Falling investment returns fail to cover for Lloyd’s losses

    28 March 2019

    UK insurance market reports £1bn loss in 2018

  • Insurers and investment risk - the rating agency’s perspective

    28 March 2019

    Antonello Aquino, associate managing director for EMEA at Moody’s, discusses why insurers are becoming more and more like asset managers, and the current trend towards riskier assets. Interview by Vincent Huck