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VIG near doubles green bond investments in 2022 to €829m

Signals future focus on sustainable property with proceeds from own bond issuance investments

VIG details entire €500m sustainability bond investments

Most proceeds went to green projects

News round-up - 05 April 2021

NN IP; VIG; Versicherungskammer Bayern; Aviva

VIG forms insurtech investment company with three other insurers

Vienna Insurance spells out investment plans after signing UN Global Compact

VIG also reveals details of recent green bond issuance

Insurers' social investing takes the spotlight in battle against COVID-19

If the pandemic has any silver lining, it is in boosting the prominence of the social aspect of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. David Walker investigates this 'elevation', and whether it will outlast the virus it is being rallied to combat.

The rise of social investing amid COVID-19

Elisabeth Stadler, chief executive of Vienna Insurance Group, has been one of the industry's most long-standing advocates of social investing - the "S" in ESG. As combating COVID-19 heightens the general awareness of socially-minded investing, she discusses the topic with David Walker

Austria: Eastern Promise Beckons for Asset Managers

Austrians' expanding businesses in eastern Europe, a commitment to ESG and their suffering at the hands of miserable debt yields, makes the country a market worth investigating in. David Walker reports.