BlackRock Says Investors Must Weigh Climate Change Like Insurers Are Doing September 7, 2016 By Simon Jessop and Trevor Hunnicutt BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, said all investors should factor climate change into their decision-making and doing so...
Update: U.K. Insurers Face Flood Claims up to $2.2B – with More Storms Ahead December 29, 2015 By Noor Zainab Hussain and Simon Jessop Insurers are facing some of the costliest British floods on record as large parts of northern England, already inundated, brace...
Asset Managers Urged to Make Cyber Risk Top Priority September 1, 2015 By Ross Kerber and Simon Jessop Investors are being poorly served by a haphazard approach from fund managers to the growing threat of cyber crime damaging...
Shareholders in UK’s RSA Bracing for Lowball Bid from Suitor Zurich Insurance August 24, 2015 By Carolyn Cohn and Simon Jessop Shareholders in British insurer RSA are bracing for a lowball bid from prospective suitor Zurich Insurance, putting one of Europe’s...
Zurich Insurance Considering Bid for UK’s RSA July 28, 2015 By Katharina Bart and Simon Jessop Cash-rich Zurich Insurance is weighing a bid for British rival RSA Insurance Group which could top $8 billion and be...
Investors Must Factor Climate Change in Their Portfolio Risk: Mercer Study June 5, 2015 By Carolyn Cohn and Simon Jessop Most investors need to make a significant behavioral shift and start factoring climate change into their portfolio risk management, a...
Some European Insurers, Pension Funds Build Loan Books to Rival Banks May 27, 2015 By Simon Jessop and Sinead Cruise Australian Symon Drake-Brockman is on the front line of a revolution in European finance. The former head of global debt...
Broker/Analyst Cheuvreux Urges Buffett to ‘Come to Europe’ November 4, 2011 By Simon Jessop Warren Buffett should come to Europe to tap regional champions at knock-down valuations, including in his favored sectors, Cheuvreux analysts...
Insurers’ Share Prices Fall on Japan Earthquake News March 11, 2011 By Simon Jessop Shares in European insurers and reinsurers fell sharply in early trading on Friday after Japan was hit by a massive...