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LGIM acquires two self-storage facilities
30 November 2020Legal & General's Industrial Property Investment Fund valued at £2.3bn
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MAPFRE appoints group head of sustainability
27 November 2020As well as a new CEO for its real estate asset manager
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Groupama AM favors risky assets
27 November 2020Asset manager bets on a return to pre-crisis growth levels by 09/21 in the US and a year later in Europe
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Use of stress tests: careful not to address the fire that just happened
25 November 2020Ash Belur, a director at Willis Towers Watson's insurance investment team, discusses insurers' usage of stress tests in their investment portfolios and how 2020 might have thrown many of the scenario assumptions out of the window. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Chart: UK insurers' allocation to EEA decreases
20 November 2020But Brexit not the sole driver of the trend
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Neither doom nor boom for European insurers in 2021
19 November 2020But market volatility and credit risk will be key high-risks next year, S&P warns
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Climate transition: insurers should lobby government and engage corporates
19 November 2020Insurers have made progress on investment side but more effort needed in underwriting, Zurich head of sustainability says
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Credit portfolio top of mind this year, Aviva's Blanc says
19 November 2020CEO highlights worrying sectors and where investment opportunities lie
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"ESG reflected in Solvency II capital charges through internal ratings", Axa CIO
18 November 2020Pascal Christory also highlights criteria for choosing ESG data providers
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US Election result: Georgia on investors' mind
18 November 2020The great US election of 2020 is done and it has changed little for insurance investors. Biden's win with a slim majority in Congress, and the likelihood of a gridlock means any major reforms are improbable. Unless Georgia delivers the Senate to the Democrats. Sarfraz Thind reports
