Stephanie Harris

Aviva Investors completes £39.9m senior debt facility with warehouse specialist

Scottish Widows intends to halve carbon footprint of £170bn portfolio by 2030

Will also influence through stewardship

Lower for longer environment "cemented" by COVID-19, Swiss Re says

Aging demographics and technological advances also cited as problems

Beazley net investment income down 29%

Small gains made in fixed income securities offset by equity market drops

M&G creates £5bn private and alternative assets team

Asset manager eyeing international sustainability market

MetLife rides out turbulent 2020 with 9% drop in investment income

Q4 up 13% on higher private equity returns as insurer piles into private markets

Asian emerging markets lead vanguard of EMD, NN IP says

Relative low solvency capital requirements of asset class make it attractive for insurers

Swiss insurers to continue on downward trend of investment returns

P&Cs to fare better than life insurers, but have more volatility in portfolios, Moody's says

Markel suffers 61.4% drop in net investment gains in 2020

Attributed to significant market volatility experienced during the year

German lifers at the mercy of interest rates falling lower, Fitch Ratings warns

Little room for restructuring the portfolios left if rates were to fall further