Vincent Huck

Articles by Vincent Huck

  • Alternative asset classes – the answer to a late cycle environment?

    21 January 2019

    JP Morgan Asset Management publishes its inaugural global alternatives outlook

  • Global insurers partner with UN and WWF

    21 January 2019

    Plan is to develop industry guide to protect World Heritage Sites through insurers’ risk management, insurance and investment activities

  • Geopolitical tensions top short-term risks list - WEF report

    16 January 2019

    Worsening international relations are hindering action across a growing array of serious challenges

  • Zimbabwean life insurers overexposed to equities

    15 January 2019

    Local regulator warns against the attractiveness of equities versus insurers’ obligations to pay claims

  • EU marketing passport and capital charge requirements misaligned, report finds

    14 January 2019

    Although the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive’s impact was broadly positive

  • Unrealised losses on bonds restrict reinsurance sector’s overall return

    11 January 2019

    Investment yield appears to have bottomed-out and showed a small uptick to 2.7% in the first nine months of 2018, according to Aon reinsurance outlook

  • European Commission provides the sustainability weapon... ammunition to follow

    10 January 2019

    Investment professionals have given a mixed reaction to draft EU rules on integrating sustainability in the fiduciary duty of investment firms and insurers. These rules are tied to another piece of legislation currently being designed and whose outcome could lead to significant change… or further greenwashing. Vincent Huck reports

  • Korea Post Insurance commits $50m to US venture capital fund

    09 January 2019

    Chicago-based Adams Street Partners will manage the VC

  • French insurers cut allocation to financials’ debt

    08 January 2019

    Regulator reveals French insurers invested €2.5trn in the first half of 2018

  • Video: Fiduciary duty evolved in light of sustainable finance

    08 January 2019

    Erick Decker, CIO for the Mediterranean and LATAM regions at Axa, tells Vincent Huck how asset managers' fiduciary duty has evolved because of the integration of environmental, social and governance criteria in the investment process.