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  • Zurich's head of responsible investment steps down

    23 April 2024

    Johanna Köb quits insurer after 11-year stint due to battle with long COVID

  • Sustainability-linked bonds are 'more powerful than green bonds'

    13 November 2020

    The 'use of proceeds' model adopted by most green bonds came under attack, amid allegations that it is susceptible to 'greenwashing'.

  • Assessing climate associated asset risk

    30 October 2020

    Panel sponsored by Royal London Asset Management

  • A 2°C pathway scenario - a blurry concept investment-wise

    20 October 2020

    IAR 2020 EMEA: delegates hear about the limitations faced by insurers in integrating climate risk into their investments

  • Regulators have the sustainability power

    12 August 2020

    JP Morgan Asset Management and Insurance Asset Risk have joined forces to understand what lies under the bonnet of insurers' responsible investment announcements. Findings were compiled in a report. We present some of the key high- level discoveries, with part one focusing on regulation. Vincent Huck reports

  • Insurers advise against focusing on industry's low level of EU-taxonomy compliance

    05 August 2020

    Eiopa has found that only 5% of their assets are eligible

  • 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

  • Zurich invests €150m in green bonds by Iberdrola

    24 July 2018

    Deal forms part of insurer's $5bn impact investment commitment

  • Zurich eyes infrastructure for its $5bn impact investment strategy

    04 July 2018

    The insurer's infrastructure debt mandates are allocated in developed nations only, and it will initially remain that way.

  • Zurich's Johanna Köb: investors can make a return while doing good

    26 March 2018

    Johanna Köb, head of responsible investment at Zurich, talks to Cintia Cheong on the importance of adequate pricing of greenhouse gases and how investors can make a profit while doing good to the society and environment.