News

• Ping An becomes first Chinese insurer to sign UN PRI

  28 August 2019

  It joins 2,500 organisations signed up to the sustainable finance initiative

• Sun Life CIO Brown comments on sustainability bond completion

  28 August 2019

  Bond has lowest coupon in Sun Life’s history

• US life insurer investment income drops by 1.8% in H1

  27 August 2019

  Mortgage loan allocation up 44%, according to AM Best

• Pimco invests in Danish mortgage bonds as rates turn negative

  27 August 2019

  Asset class is much favoured by insurers

• Video: IAR Americas 2019, there is more to ALM than cashflows

  27 August 2019

  Todd Hedtke, CIO at Allianz Life North America, urges investment professionals to collaborate with colleagues on the insurance side of the business

• French insurers continue push into unit-linked world

  23 August 2019

  But their net sales of investment products slowed appreciably in 2018

• US P&C investments consistently beat underwriting income

  23 August 2019

  H1 investment income has beaten underwriting income by at least $20bn in each of the last six years, says AM Best

• Bond markets in bubble, warns Guggenheim CIO

  23 August 2019

  Unceasing bond rally has “ominous implications,” says Guggenheim

• CIO, CRO and CFO - a partnership where everyone has a role

  23 August 2019

  A panel at the IAR Americas conference in New York in September will explore where the risk tolerance of the CRO stops, and the risk appetite of the CIO starts

• NN Investment Partners integrates ESG for two - thirds of assets

  22 August 2019

  €176bn of assets screened against environmental, social and governance factors