Vincent Huck

• L&G strikes loan and pensions de-risking deal with Heathrow Airport

  15 June 2018

  The insurer will take £325m of pension liabilities and will lend £160m in bond

• Insurers’ investment income set to fall, despite rising rates

  14 June 2018

  Expect another one to three years of declines, analysts at Bernstein predict

• Impact investing or impact washing?

  13 June 2018

  Insurers say they can find financial value in ESG investing, but they have to be wise to investments that don't deliver on their stated goals. And while ESG can mean different things to different stakeholders, a push for standardisation is not always welcome, according to panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's 2018 EMEA conference. Vincent Huck reports

  

• Emerging market debt investments attractive in the long run

  12 June 2018

  62% of surveyed investors said it is attractive to hold for more than five years

• Dutch insurers’ total investments dropped by €17bn in 2017

  12 June 2018

  Decline due to a decrease in their liabilities

• Lloyds sells stake in Standard Life Aberdeen

  08 June 2018

  Sale of £355m worth of shares puts final nail in the coffin of firms’ relationship

• Climatewise launches transition risk modelling framework

  07 June 2018

  Framework can be used as an add-on to insurer’s existing models

• UK equity release mortgages receive 'not risky' Fitch rating

  07 June 2018

  ERMs enable lending insurers to match their long-term liabilities, Fitch Ratings says

• Legal & General to fund University of Lincoln student blocks

  06 June 2018

  £25.6m investment aims to develop 301 student rooms

• Nippon Life invests in sustainable equity fund

  05 June 2018

  The insurer’s wholly-owned asset management unit will oversee the fund