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  • Comment - When non-life insurance policies become long-term costs, for general insurers

    21 July 2023

    A few weeks ago we asked, half-jokingly, what investments could a CIO possibly use, for a life policy bought by Dorian Gray, the character of Oscar Wilde's imagination who trades his soul for eternal life (and youth)?

  • Swiss Life Asset Managers finds sustainable buildings yield higher rents

    21 July 2023

    In newly-published research with University of Cambridge

  • Chart of the Week - SFCRs as EIOPA's answer to the 'Barbenheimer dilemma'

    21 July 2023

    SFCRs will tell you if market crashes hurt insurers' solvency more than pandemics - but not whether to watch Robert Oppenheimer or Margot Robbie...

  • Californian politicians call for forced disclosure of insurer fossil fuel investments

    21 July 2023

    FIO should impose more scrutiny on green assets as insurers exit from climate change-hit states

  • Cash has regenerated as an asset class, Aviva Investors says

    20 July 2023

    In the form money market funds, as interest rates take off

  • Angelo Gordon raises $1bn for credit fund

    20 July 2023

    Insurers catered for with capital efficient rated note structure

  • Insurers and asset managers urge halt to deep-sea mining talks

    20 July 2023

    Saying poorly-understood environmental impacts of ocean extraction threaten circular economy and are risk for long-term investors

  • Brussels' Solvency II reform hits German life firm's solvency only 60% as hard as Putin's war, SFCR finds

    20 July 2023

    IDEAL Leben stress-tests Solvency II reform, Vladimir Putin's bellicosity, property values and climate change

  • UK government needs to engage better with residential property investors, L&G says

    19 July 2023

    Headwinds in residential property market affect both state and private investments

  • MassMutual increases investment in AI start-up

    19 July 2023

    Zluri developing GenAI for its software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform