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  • ESG Considerations for the Insurance Industry

    There are many types of risks insurers must consider, and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks that swarm the industry are no exception. Read our insight to understand why ESG criteria is crucial for the insurance space, and items to consider up front.

  • MetLife originates record $14.7bn of private debt

    25 March 2019

    Metlife Investment Management capitalises on growing demand for private and infrastructure debt

  • Blind faith in ESG improving performance could be the next dieselgate

    22 March 2019

    Columbia Threadneedle’s head of responsible investment warns against getting too carried away with ESG improving returns

  • Dai-Ichi Life makes YEN1bn impact investment

    22 March 2019

    Japanese life insurer backs energy venture fund

  • RLAM sees record inflow of external assets as market volatility hits investment returns

    22 March 2019

    Overall assets hold steady at £114bn as unrealised losses drive down investment returns

  • CLO market "hysteria" overstated

    22 March 2019

    Turning credit market risk high on American Council of Life Insurers conference agenda

  • Irish Life's and NN Group's investment arms partner on ESG

    21 March 2019

    Partnership will combine research and indexation expertise of Dutch and Irish insurer investors

  • Putting Chinese govvies in global index could trigger $151bn inflows

    21 March 2019

    Affects investors benchmarked to the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index

  • Is it really a small world after all? Protectionism strikes back

    21 March 2019

    Most insurers’ chief investment officers and asset managers have grown up investing during the long trend of beneficial globalisation. The trend was their friend. But as evidence of its unravelling builds, they are asking if the elastic is just stretching or about to snap back. Vincent Huck went in search of answers

  • NN Group reveals €600m of mortgage origination for Belgian and non-life units

    20 March 2019

    Market risk falls as Dutch group calculates more by internal model