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  • Establishing and managing insurer investment strategies

    The changing regulatory landscape and current market environment are creating challenges for the establishment and management of insurers' investment strategies, including: understanding the impact of investment strategy on regulatory capital requirements, identifying new investment strategies to enhance yield, accessing alternative or illiquid assets, and designing a framework for more integrated modelling of assets and liabilities.

  • Solvency II: clean asset data in the forefront of industry transformation

    Solvency II started as a regulatory act – designed to enhance risk management and to bring insurers a deeper understanding of their business, while also sharing this understanding with regulators. And this is largely what happened in the UK until the end of 2015.

  • PRA steps up intervention on repackaged MA assets

    16 December 2016

    Concerns that firms may overestimate MA benefit for equity release mortgage securitisations

  • UK life insurers continue gilt sell-off

    15 December 2016

    Trend underway since Q4 2013

  • What are the ESG alternatives to renewables and divestment?

    14 December 2016

    Hot on the heels of the FSB's guide to incorporating climate risks in investment decisions, Environmental Finance's Peter Cripps examines some of the alternative strategies being executed by insurers to reduce their exposures to risks stemming from climate change.

  • LGIM diversifies long term investments for annuity portfolio

    14 December 2016

    Insurer strikes a deal with Aston Martin as it targets "long let assets with investment-grade covenants"

  • RenaissanceRe appoints new CIO

    14 December 2016

    Bermudian group promotes Sean Brosnan as Todd Fonner announces exit

  • Insurers back FSB's climate risk reporting recommendations

    14 December 2016

    Disclosure should be mandatory, says Aviva's chief executive

  • Dutch mortgages a €100bn opportunity for insurance sector

    14 December 2016

    Industry will need more non-core investments to boost returns, regulator says

  • Allianz buys 80% of €330m wind farm portfolio

    13 December 2016

    PNE WIND will invest in more wind farm projects after its largest sale to date