Josh Adcock

Articles by Josh Adcock

  • Just Group completes £28m buy-in with CP Pharmaceuticals Limited Pension Scheme

    04 January 2024

    Deal did not require additional contribution from plan sponsor

  • Institutional investors signal appetite for risk in 2024

    03 January 2024

    Survey from Aeon Investments finds global diversification and increased risk among investors' priorities for fixed income over next three years

  • PGIM launches two buffer ETF series

    03 January 2024

    PGIM U.S. Large-Cap Buffer 12 ETF series and PGIM U.S. Large-Cap Buffer 20 ETF series will track the S&P 500 Index

  • Somers Re capitalisation stays strong despite unrealised losses, AM Best says

    02 January 2024

    Unrealised investment losses in 2022 not enough to knock the firm's ratings down

  • CDPQ and partners take majority stake in Quebec bakery business

    02 January 2024

    Swander Pace Capital and Roynat Equity Partners join CDPQ

  • Can you quantify culture - and invest in it?

    29 December 2023

    At the start of December, Impax Asset Management launched its Global Social Leaders Strategy, seeking to invest in sahres of companies with strong corporate cultures responding to long-term, secular social trends.

  • Insurers search for solid ESG data ground

    28 December 2023

    Insurance investors at Insurance Asset Risk's Responsible Investing for Insurers conference wrestled with the challenges of sourcing accurate ESG data on their investment portfolios, and discussed the need for recognised industry data standards

  • Solvency II reforms fail to embed double materiality, ShareAction says

    28 December 2023

    Final political trilogue establishing the shape of Solvency II are a reversion to single materiality, Caroline Metz says, amidst a growing ESG backlash in Europe

  • Asset values at Europe's mutual insurers fared better than wider market in 2022

    27 December 2023

    A report from the ICMIF and AMICE found asset balance sheets dropped just 4.7% due to lower equities exposures

  • Volatility in pension scheme surpluses will drive 'Jumbo deals' in 2024, Standard Life says

    25 December 2023

    Insurer predicts £1bn mega-deals to become commonplace