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Talanx appoints head life insurance and investment for Germany

Sven Lixenfeld to replace Patrick Dahmen, effective 1 September

Generali places €200m green catastrophe note with investors

Investment returns linked to wind and earthquake

Intermediate fixed income offers valuable hedge for annuity liabilities

Rising Treasury yields in Q1 benefitted annuity and pension funds, Loomis Sayles says

Greek insurers bemoan low yields on once-tragic local debt

One CIO liquidated a bond originally designed to bail Greece out, for its negative yield to maturity

Nearly £1bn of M&G equity assets has now achieved net-zero carbon

Plans for climate-aware with-profits fund creation

MS&AD stops investing in, and insuring, new coal plants

Japanese insurer extends existing net-zero commitments

The low rate crunch

You can't get away from low rates if you are an insurer. But how bad is the low rate environment for the industry? Well the devil's in the detail as Sarfraz Thind finds out.

Chart of the week - Storebrand ditches its Adani problem

The commitment insurers have made to net zero could face some litmus tests, and quite soon

End of government and monetary stimulus may expose insurers vulnerabilities

Moody's says illiquids give boon in short run, but watch out for credit risk

Generali places €500m sustainability bond