News

• Zurich to double investment in green bonds

  15 July 2014

  Largest commitment to date for growing market

• Insurers are the third-biggest alternative investors

  15 July 2014

  Represent 9% of top 100 alternative manager assets totaling $3.3trn

• Aviva seeking closer ties with investments arm

  15 July 2014

  Aviva Investors will have more input to group ALM

• European insurers threatened by interest-rate spike

  14 July 2014

  Rising rates one of top ten threats to insurance portfolios, says AM Best

• "Drastic" shift in insurers' investments caused by prospect of Solvency II

  14 July 2014

  Data shows growth in covered bonds, decline in securitisation, says BAML

• Wide variety in returns from with-profits funds

  11 July 2014

  Mutual insurers see investment in bonds underperform but equities and property post good returns, Barnett Waddingham exclusively reveals

• DeAWM appoints Brown to head insurance solutions

  10 July 2014

  Also appointed head of Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management's UK operations

• Solvency II will boost infrastructure investment, says S&P

  07 July 2014

  Agency estimates $80bn annual insurer investment globally

• Law on lower guaranteed rate for life insurance passed in Germany

  07 July 2014

  Talanx has avoided shift to riskier assets

• US P&C investment yields hit 50-year lows

  04 July 2014

  Returns of 3.1% are the lowest since 1965