Archive

  • Where are the brokers in sustainable insurance?

    29 November 2019

    Zurich's group head of sustainability John Scott asks at PSI meeting

  • Insurers’ investment guide to protect world heritage sites unveiled

    15 October 2019

    Insurers worldwide have collaborated with the United Nations and the World Wildlife Fund

  • UN PSI launches new ESG guide

    27 February 2019

    Calling for the homogeneous integration of ESG factors on both sides of insurers balance sheets

  • Aon commits to the UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance

    05 June 2018

    It is the first insurance broker to sign up to the principles

  • California conducts US insurance investment climate risk study

    09 May 2018

    Stress test conducted to determine climate-related risk to insurance industry investments

  • Axa and Scor lead tobacco control investor group

    31 May 2017

    Insurers follow up on their recent divestment policies by encouraging greater regulation of the tobacco industry

  • Climate risk: how insurers are failing to join the dots on the investment side

    12 April 2017

    The quantification of climate-related risks is strategically important for insurers in terms of underwriting and investing performance, but the industry is accused of not leveraging its underwriting expertise to benefit its asset allocation strategy. Environmental Finance's Peter Cripps reports

  • Investing in a changing climate

    12 December 2016

    The response by insurers' investment operations to climate change has been branded embarrassing. Environmental Finance's Peter Cripps investigates what the industry can do on the asset side of the balance sheet to mitigate climate change risks in the first of a two-part analysis.