Archive

  • Berkshire Hathaway hunts elephants, will settle for equities

    25 February 2019

    Large war chest may remain untapped as businesses are over-priced

  • US insurance use of ETFs to increase as regulatory pressures ease

    25 February 2019

    Greenwich survey finds two-third of insurers plan to up ETF use in next few years

  • US and UK strike post Brexit derivatives deal

    25 February 2019

    Three-part agreement aims to reassure market regardless of soft or hard Brexit

  • LGIM appoints Scrimgeour as new CEO

    25 February 2019

    Legal & General Investment management turns to former Columbia Threadneedle and M&G exec to replace Mark Zinkula

  • QBE boosts investment goal after "hitting bottom" end of target in 2018

    25 February 2019

    Australian group also flags growing risk assets

  • Hiscox reports record high US bond reinvestment rate

    25 February 2019

    Reinvestment rate of 3% is set against a disappointing 2018 for investment returns

  • Legal & General taps rainy-day funds for with-profits losses

    25 February 2019

    Fixed income, commercial property cuts impact of challenging year on policy returns

  • VIG updates coal investment policy

    25 February 2019

    But environmentalists argue Austrian insurer has not gone far enough with its policy

  • Axa reveals extent of investment margin on new and existing business

    22 February 2019

    Both gaps show a "significant buffer" between yield and promise for French giant

  • Transitioning from Libor: complex questions and no answers

    21 February 2019

    The discontinuation of Libor will affect trillions of contracts across the global financial industry, Insurance Asset Risk reveals the scope of the impact on insurers and the unanswerable question they face in a transition period filled with uncertainty. Vincent Huck reports