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  • Robeco makes senior insurance hire from Invesco

    05 November 2018

    Ed Collinge goes Dutch as global head of insurance strategy

  • Boutique asset managers outperform non-boutiques by 16%

    02 November 2018

    Institutional investors would record greater returns if they gave mandates to smaller asset managers, latest research highlights

  • Dutch investors support mandating ESG as part of fiduciary duty

    02 November 2018

    CFA Institute survey finds little support amongst European insurers to legislate on sustainable finance

  • European insurers’ outsourcing starts at home, Insurance Risk Data reveals

    02 November 2018

    But independents also win mandates, especially in UK market

  • US insurer CSAA seeds first Californian forest bond $4.6m

    01 November 2018

    Forest Resilience Bond to finance forest restoration in Northern California

  • Swiss Re return on investment falls to 2.8%

    01 November 2018

    But group says it is in position to grow yield on reinvesting

  • Tensions flare between Exxon and its shareholders over climate disclosures

    01 November 2018

    A decade of shareholder engagement at Exxon seem to have gone down the drain as the company now faces a lawsuit for misleading investors. While insurers were quick to broadcast their role in exercising shareholder powers, they are now found coy to comment. Adam Leach reports

  • North American insurers expect investment returns to fall short of their targets

    31 October 2018

    80% of CIOs agree that business outperformance will require taking greater investment risk, according to survey

  • Four countries hold 80% of European insurers’ €10trn investments

    31 October 2018

    France, the UK, Germany and Italy are Europe’s big four

  • One tenth of the world’s 500 largest asset managers are insurers

    30 October 2018

    Assets of the largest insurers globally grew by 48% in 2017, according to WTW's research