Peter Cripps

• EU to investigate lower capital charges for sustainable investments

  08 March 2018

  Insurers key to reorienting financial system towards sustainability

• Q&A: Why Swiss Re chose ESG benchmarks

  08 September 2017

  The group's chief investment officer, Guido Fürer, explains why he feels that adopting the ESG benchmarks has been the most meaningful and strategic step in its journey to integrate ESG considerations

  

• Zurich reaches $2bn green bond target

  01 September 2017

  The insurer will continue to invest in green bonds, but insists greater clarity and objectivity of "greenness" is needed

  

• Climate risk: how insurers are failing to join the dots on the investment side

  12 April 2017

  The quantification of climate-related risks is strategically important for insurers in terms of underwriting and investing performance, but the industry is accused of not leveraging its underwriting expertise to benefit its asset allocation strategy. Environmental Finance's Peter Cripps reports

  

• What are the ESG alternatives to renewables and divestment?

  14 December 2016

  Hot on the heels of the FSB's guide to incorporating climate risks in investment decisions, Environmental Finance's Peter Cripps examines some of the alternative strategies being executed by insurers to reduce their exposures to risks stemming from climate change.

  

• Investing in a changing climate

  12 December 2016

  The response by insurers' investment operations to climate change has been branded embarrassing. Environmental Finance's Peter Cripps investigates what the industry can do on the asset side of the balance sheet to mitigate climate change risks in the first of a two-part analysis.

  

• Aviva flags 10 coal companies for divestment

  07 November 2016

  Asian firms earmarked for potential divestment after failure to engage

• Talanx makes first solar investment

  09 August 2016

  Investment will generate yields well above German government bonds