Vincent Huck

• Allianz Real Estate completes £400m debt financing for London offices

  17 September 2020

  Transaction brings Allianz's Luxembourg based funds to €3.4bn AuM

• IAR Americas virtual event platform now open

  16 September 2020

  FREE to attend for insurers- Conference to take place, virtually, on 22 and 23 September

• Stress-tested: How COVID-19 put insurers' investments under pressure

  14 September 2020

  The impact of the pandemic on insurers' claims remains unknown, and estimates vary widely. However, market turbulence in H1 has clearly impacted the asset side of insurers' balance sheets. Already, though, underwriters are looking ahead and rethinking investment decisions and ensuring resilience. Vincent Huck surveys the damage done and the plans afoot

  

• Insurers to increase allocation to ETFs, Insurance Asset Risk survey finds

  11 September 2020

  As global ETFs and ETPs reach $7trn

• Swiss Life AM expands real assets offering to infra debt financing

  11 September 2020

  Affiliate commits to investing €1.5bn in next three years, initially for the group Swiss, French and German insurers

• Commercial real estate not completely dead, Scor GI's CEO believes

  10 September 2020

  De Varenne still see a role for the asset class in the portfolio

• Scor GI chief exec upbeat about COVID-19 recovery

  09 September 2020

  De Varenne looking to deploy more investments in alternatives to limit erosion of portfolio's returns

• IAIS consult on capital treatment of infra and strategic equity investments

  08 September 2020

  As part of work on the Insurance Capital Standard

• Focus on underwriting activity to tackle profitability issues, Swiss Re tells insurers

  08 September 2020

  Because reinsurer sees little hope for help from investments in a lower-for-longer rate environment

• ESG investing, a fair-weather practice?

  08 September 2020

  As insurers tried to navigate H1 turbulences sustainability consideration dropped out the pecking order, IAR's research finds.