Archive

  • Just takes £300m hit after equity-release mortgage restructure

    12 March 2020

    Insurer has been under pressure to comply with PRA matching adjustment rules

  • Legal & General portfolio on track for 3.1°C of warming: TCFD report

    12 March 2020

    Insurer estimates its current holdings of listed assets are aligned with 3.1°C of global warming

  • Baloise avoids reinvesting in maturing CHF bonds and instead eyes Euro

    12 March 2020

    Swiss insurer also increases allocation to real estate

  • Insurers committed 89% of raised capital in French infra debt funds

    12 March 2020

    And one-third of raised capital in infra equity funds

  • Austrian regulator on top of illiquidity and currency risks

    12 March 2020

    The FMA has been monitoring both risks and is not phased by the IMF recommendations

  • Folksam divests from gaming companies

    12 March 2020

    Gaming is the third sector excluded from Swedish insurer's investment universe

  • When China sneezes, Europe's insurers catch the cold

    11 March 2020

    Analysis by Insurance Risk Data shows most countries' underwriters were adding equities in general accounts as virus risk approached. David Walker reports

  • Swiss Re's economic outlook catches Covid-19

    11 March 2020

    Reinsurer predicts a global recession in 2020

  • Taiwan introduces credit risk cap on investment-linked policies

    11 March 2020

    These policies now account for 30% of first-year premium in Taiwan's life insurance industry

  • Allianz to create €100bn property manager through Pimco transfer

    11 March 2020

    Move should enhance third-party business at European affiliate.