News

  • UK regulator to rein in excessive MA benefits on equity-release mortgages

    02 July 2018

    PRA proposals focus on risks with no-negative-equity guarantees

  • Italian insurers failed by Solvency II volatility adjustment, Ivass says

    29 June 2018

    Mechanism did not protect underwriters from recent bond market turbulence

  • M&G Real Estate partnership targets private rented market

    29 June 2018

    To fund the construction of 114 private rental homes in South England

  • Nippon Life funds Chilean desalination project

    29 June 2018

    Japanese firm joins 10 others institutional investors in syndicated loan

  • Brexit threatens Germans' €3.2bn derivatives holdings

    28 June 2018

    Status as 'risk-reducing' could be threatened after March 2019, GDV says

  • Japan Post Insurance is sole investor in World Bank's SDG bond

    28 June 2018

    A CAD60m 10-year Eurobond dedicated to improving the lives of women and children.

  • 73% of German insurers' investments are 'sustainable'

    27 June 2018

    Almost half want to make more ESG allocations

  • Phoenix and Aberdeen launch fund financing strategy

    27 June 2018

    Aiming to capture private markets’ illiquidity premia

  • Solvency II forcing insurers into suboptimal assets - Insurance Europe

    26 June 2018

    Survey reveals half of firms are avoiding investing in equities and long-term assets

  • Economic case for ESG investing is valid, says Swiss Re

    26 June 2018

    After reviewing its experience of using benchmarks based on ESG criteria, rather than market-capitalisation