Financial Services Firms ‘Largely Blind’ to Exposures From Nature-Related Risks: Report August 17, 2023 By Alastair Marsh Most financial firms aren’t assessing their portfolio exposure to nature-related risks with the same urgency they use to measure climate...
Update: List of Insurers Exiting Climate Group Grows, Including Lloyd’s, Tokio Marine May 30, 2023 By Aaron Clark, Nao Sano and Alastair Marsh The list of firms walking out of the Net Zero Insurance Alliance continued to grow this week, adding to an...
UPDATE: ESG-Bashing Triggers More Defections From Insurer Climate Group May 25, 2023 By Alastair Marsh The world’s biggest climate alliance for insurers has started hemorrhaging members, after Republican attorneys general accused the group of antitrust...
Anti-ESG Rhetoric in U.S. Prompts Urgent Talks as Insurers Quit Climate Coalition May 24, 2023 By Alastair Marsh The world’s biggest climate coalition for insurers is set to hold emergency talks after a wave of defections revealed the...
Swiss Re Becomes Fourth Insurer to Leave Net Zero Group May 23, 2023 By Alastair Marsh Swiss Re is quitting the world’s main climate alliance for insurers, joining a growing exodus from the coalition of some...
More Insurers Weigh Joint Strategy to Climate Change as They Assess Antitrust Risk May 5, 2023 By Alastair Marsh Insurers are being forced to rethink their approach to climate change as they assess the risk of being sued for...
ESG Backlash Overshadows Power to Drive Better Returns: UK’s Biggest Fund Manager April 27, 2023 By Alastair Marsh The politicization of the acronym ESG risks overshadowing its power to drive returns for shareholders, according to the head of...
Zurich Exits Insurance Climate Alliance, Days After Munich Re April 6, 2023 By Alastair Marsh Zurich Insurance Group AG is leaving a coalition of major insurers that have committed to reach net-zero emissions, the second...
Munich Re Exits Insurance Climate Group, Citing ‘Material’ Legal Risks April 3, 2023 By Laura Malsch and Alastair Marsh Munich Re is leaving an alliance of leading insurers that have committed to reduce emissions due to what it says...
Biodiversity Emerges as New Risk for Asset Managers After UN Summit December 20, 2022 By Alastair Marsh Fund managers who haven’t cared about biodiversity may soon find they have to. In the early hours of Monday in...