LATEST NEWS
- Climate change leapfrogging Brexit as key risk for insurance industry
- SII adjustments ‘should not thwart EU Green Deal plans’ - GDV
- Macquarie announces £120m investment in energy portfolio from waste assets
- Canadian regulator updates timelines for IFRS 17 implementation
- Aviva Investors provides CLS with £154m senior debt facility
SII adjustments ‘should not thwart EU Green Deal plans’ - GDV
Adjustments to Solvency II “should be coordinated as ideally as possible with the EU’s Green Deal plans”, and “not thwart them”, member of the GDV executive board and chairman of the management Jörg von Fürstenwerth has said
Macquarie announces £120m investment in energy portfolio from waste assets
Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions has announced a £120m long-term debt investment in a portfolio of energy from waste assets operated by Viridor
Canadian regulator updates timelines for IFRS 17 implementation
The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) has released three documents that update the timelines for Canadian insurers to implement IFRS 17
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UK/US finance industries join forces to propose vision for closer regulatory cooperation
Leading representatives from the UK and US financial and related professional services industries have joined together to propose a united business vision for future UK-US regulatory cooperation and dialogue
Japanese life insurer introduces ESG index
The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company (DLIC) has announced that it is to introduce an ESG index as its benchmark for foreign equity investments managed in-house
FCA files ‘leapfrog’ application to Court over BI insurance test case ruling
The FCA has confirmed that it has filed a ‘leapfrog’ application to appeal to the Supreme Court over the ruling of its Business Interruption (BI) insurance test case
Aviva Investors provides CLS with £154m senior debt facility
Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva, has provided CLS Holdings with a £154m senior debt facility towards the refinancing of 12 UK assets
GIC and MassMutual to acquire Blackstone’s shareholding in Rothesay Life
Rothesay Life has announced that an agreement has been reached by GIC and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual), to acquire Blackstone’s 36% shareholding in Rothesay Life
LGIM Real Assets announces £81.5m forward funding in Glasgow scheme
LGIM Real Assets has announced the forward funding of an £81.5m mixed use regeneration scheme in Glasgow, on behalf of its Build to Rent (BTR) Fund
AFG reaches agreement to exit Lloyd's of London insurance market
American Financial Group (AFG) has reached an agreement to sell GAI Holding Bermuda and its subsidiaries, which comprise the legal entities that own its Lloyd’s of London insurer, Neon, to RiverStone Holdings Limited
Latest Features
'Double-hit' scenario to cause €160bn EU insurer balance sheet plunge
A 'double-hit' scenario across Europe is to have a negative impact worth €160bn on the undertakings balance-sheets of EU-wide insurers and for a 'low-for-long' scenario an impact of €100bn, according to EIOPA's latest insurance stress test report
Insurance Europe 'puzzled' by length of EIOPA's stress test recommendations
Insurance Europe is 'puzzled' by the long list of supervisory actions recommended by EIOPA arising from its latest stress test report
Real estate debt: how to target better outcomes from private debt investment
Careful underwriting of real estate debt can provide downside protection for insurers’ portfolios as the market cycle turns, says M&G’s Real Estate Debt Finance director Duncan Batty
Real estate debt: a compelling investment case for insurers
Insurance companies are increasingly seeking investments that offer both attractive returns and make efficient use of capital. A growing number are recognising the valuable role that real estate debt – specifically senior mortgages on commercial property – can play within a core fixed income portfolio – and the multiple benefits it can offer large-scale investors with longer investment horizons and capacity to accept illiquidity
Expert Views
How can we rethink insurance investment to solve the complexity challenge?
The model of insurance investing has been upended since the financial crisis by a confluence of
challenges. New assets, strategies and partnerships have the potential to help insurers
cut through this complexity and deliver sustainable solutions
Expert Views
New Rules, New opportunities: A return to European ABS for insurers?
At the height of the global financial crisis, insurance company investors withdrew from
the securitised debt market and sold down their asset-backed securities (ABS) holdings.
But a decade on, new regulation offers the potential for securitised debt to re-emerge
as an attractive investment opportunity for Solvency II-regulated insurers,
believes James King, Fund Manager at M&G Investments
DIVERSIFIED PRIVATE CREDIT
Editor Adam Cadle talks to BNP Paribas Asset Management head of pension solutions Julien Halfon about investing in diversified private credit
Emerging Market Debt
Editor Adam Cadle talks to BNP Paribas Asset Management head of emerging markets debt Bryan Carter about the asset class and the opportunities in this space
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HSBC: Asian credit
Adam Cadle talks to HSBC Global Asset Management global head of insurance segment Andries Hoekema and head of insurance business EMEA Deepak Seeburrun about investing in Asian credit for European insurers
