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  • Climate change analysis - Aviva on stress-testing for history's biggest 'What if?'

    Ben Carr, analytics and capital modelling director at Aviva, reflects on the limitations of stress testing an investment portfolio for climate change, and the benefits of doing so nonetheless. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Sustainability and Solvency II: an imprudent regime

    17 October 2019

    Aviva Investors' Steve Waygood and Ben Carr, discuss integrating sustainability risk to Solvency II capital requirements, and why in some respect the prudential regulation is ‘imprudent’. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Sustainability and Solvency II: Is the frog dead yet?

    10 October 2019

    If the planet is a frog in a saucepan heated by the market, at the moment we are only taking the temperature and not reducing the heat, according to Steve Waygood, chief responsible investment officer, and Ben Carr, analytics and capital modelling director, at Aviva Investors. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Spurring sustainable investments with capital charges

    19 September 2019

    The question of capital charges punishing ‘brown’ investments or incentivising ‘green’ investments has come to the fore. While regulators are asking for risk-based evidence, stakeholders are not all in agreement on how to proceed. Vincent Huck reports