David Walker

• Standard formula users more 'investors' than 'underwriters', SII data reveals

  01 July 2021

  Investment risk capital requirement edged down during 2020

• Generali sets new €9.5bn green investment goal after hitting interim target early

  30 June 2021

  Italian also promises to engage with 20 heavy-emitting investments by 2025

• Insurance Risk Data's new research offers unrivalled insight into how Europe's insurers invest

  30 June 2021

  General account patterns analysed for more than 100 cohorts in EEA and Switzerland

• Insurers are 'predestined' to finance and underwrite low-carbon future, Joerg Asmussen says

  29 June 2021

  Allianz alone lists over 100 in-scope 'wind park' or 'renewable energy' structures in SFCR

• Ping An buys into Raffles properties in China

  29 June 2021

  Chinese insurer and Singapore developer hope deal will be done in Q3

• Generali places €200m green catastrophe note with investors

  28 June 2021

  Investment returns linked to wind and earthquake

• Greek insurers bemoan low yields on once-tragic local debt

  28 June 2021

  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

  28 June 2021

  Plans for climate-aware with-profits fund creation

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

  28 June 2021

  Japanese insurer extends existing net-zero commitments

• Chart of the week - Storebrand ditches its Adani problem

  25 June 2021

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