News

• Chart of the Week - Real rates still negative, in 2050

  31 March 2023

  German academics predict 'lower for longer' might not have gone away

• UK insurers unlikely to take 'material losses' from commercial real estate, Jefferies says

  31 March 2023

  CRE exposure concerns creep into insurance investment market

• Asia's insurers cut FX hedging to "maintain profitability," says S&P Global

  31 March 2023

  Costs of FX protection could erode earnings, and capital of some

• US insurers reduced fixed income ETFs by $1bn last year

  30 March 2023

  Risk off environment sees insurers pull money from high yield ETF holdings

• Athora Netherlands grows investment returns by €145m in 2022 despite own assets dropping €8.5bn

  30 March 2023

  As a result of new strategy repositioning towards higher-yield assets

• BlackRock, abrdn and Schroders pick up Scottish Widows environmental outsourcing gigs

  30 March 2023

  Including Environmental Solutions fund and three new Paris-aligned regional equities funds

• Insurers welcome UK's updated green finance strategy

  30 March 2023

  In particular making transition plan disclosures mandatory

• Dai-ichi slashes foreign debt exposure as currency hedging costs spike

  30 March 2023

  Insurer shrunk foreign debt portfolio to 8.6% last year from 19% in 2021

• NZAOA releases guidance for oil and gas investments

  29 March 2023

  Reclaim Finance criticises paper as "a great leap backward" for the Alliance

• HansaInvest Real Assets welcomes rates "great normalisation"

  29 March 2023

  Exit from ultra-low rates spells "return to sensible times", Nicholas Brinkmann says