News

• Moody's predicts shift towards unrated assets on risk charge falling

  06 September 2017

  Rating agency does not expect risk charge on sovereign bonds for standard formula users

• Schroders launches tool to measure companies' earnings at risk from rising carbon prices

  05 September 2017

  Carbon VaR captures the impact of supply chain

  

• Real estate companies ask for more consistency in property investments under Solvency II

  04 September 2017

  REITs should not be treated as equities, says Epra

  

• EU insurers back proposals to reform Solvency II treatment of local government assets

  04 September 2017

  Insurance Europe responds to Eiopa's Solvency II consultation

• NN reveals carbon footprint of asset portfolio

  01 September 2017

  Insurer's chief investment officer Jelle van der Giessen expects the group to expand the scope of its analysis to include its sizeable mortgage portfolio

  

• LGIM expands active equity team

  01 September 2017

  Appointment of Nigel Masding follows that of Stephen Message last month

  

• Zurich reaches $2bn green bond target

  01 September 2017

  The insurer will continue to invest in green bonds, but insists greater clarity and objectivity of "greenness" is needed

  

• German trade body calls for proportionality on look-through

  31 August 2017

  GDV's plea comes as Insurance Risk Data reveals Germany's largest fund-investing insurers

  

• ASR re-risks investment portfolio

  30 August 2017

  Dutch insurer piles into US debt and mortgages

  

• Baloise softens blow of low rates with US dollar real assets

  30 August 2017

  Move away from Swiss bonds provides net return of 1.4% on insurance investments