Sarfraz Thind

• Farmers promotes Irakoze Baur to CIO

  18 December 2020

  Will replace retiring Tom Rogers from January

• CLOs pose no risk to US insurers despite pandemic

  17 December 2020

  GAO report finds insurer leveraged loans too small to be a threat

• US needs to raise rates to offer "any semblance of return," Hartford CEO says

  15 December 2020

  Rates down 125bps in one year, magnitude of decline bites on insurance industry

• MassMutual invests $100m in bitcoin

  11 December 2020

  Also purchases $5m stake in bitcoin investment company, NYDIG

• Liberty Mutual becomes first US P&C insurer to join PRI

  10 December 2020

  Move to incorporate ESG principles follows regulatory outcry against Boston-based insurer in May

• Insatiable chase for yield will be more pronounced in 2021, Macquarie says

  09 December 2020

  Negative yielding corporate debt rises to $2.7trn in last year

• CECL had little impact on US insurers this year

  09 December 2020

  Fitch says accounting standard largely immaterial for insurer reported equity

• US recovery not until 2023, Axa IM says

  08 December 2020

  Worse outbreak of COVID-19 in winter predicted

• Insurers placing less emphasis on climate risk in investments

  07 December 2020

  Climate risk underweighted in asset management versus underwriting, IAIS meeting participants say

• Over half of US insurers have not altered investment strategy for climate

  26 November 2020

  US's biggest insurer climate survey shows gaps in industry's climate change work