Archive

  • Conning promotes Matt Daly to head of North America

    01 June 2023

    Cindy Beaulieu named CIO of Conning North America

  • SEC climate proposals will add burden and benefit for insurance investors

    24 March 2022

    New climate disclosure rules set to increase data for investor analysis

  • Net-zero made in USA

    09 September 2021

    Net-zero investing may not occupy every waking moment of CIOs at insurers in the US yet, but it is definitely on their minds, and radars, as Conning's Matt Daly tells David Walker

  • USA insurers search for the golden age of credit

    07 September 2020

    For the harried insurer, dealing with a projected lifetime of low interest rates, is there any value left in the corporate bond market? Some believe there is, and particularly so in that much-derided BBB segment. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Did the Fed kill the bond market?

    02 July 2020

    Hopes were high at the end of March for investors to profit from the Fed's QE intervention and access a rejuvenated credit sector. The once-in-a-lifetime returns have, however, swiftly disappeared, and investors are back to staring at the ghost of bond market past. So what next? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Fossil fuel exclusion proves a slow burn for US insurers

    03 October 2019

    US insurers say they are ready to stop investing in climate-harming coal. But only one has divested from the fossil fuel to date. Could Chubb’s move be the start of a wider transition by US insurers away from fossil fuels or is it empty talk? Sarfraz Thind reports.