Swiss Re No Longer Offers Re/Insurance to Firms with More Than 30% Coal Exposure July 3, 2018 Swiss Re announced it no longer is providing re/insurance to businesses with more than 30 percent exposure to thermal coal...
China Tightens Rules on $15 Trillion Asset Management Sector to Cut Systemic Risks November 17, 2017 By Shu Zhang China’s central bank on Friday issued sweeping guidelines to tighten rules on asset management business, the latest step by Beijing...
EU Wants Insurers to Plug Investment Gap, but Bank Partners Needed: Regulator November 17, 2017 By Huw Jones and Carolyn Cohn Efforts to get insurers to plug Europe’s investment gap by backing riskier assets could be undermined if banks are unwilling...
Europe’s Re/Insurers Cut Coal Investments by $20B; U.S. Firms Fail to Act: Report November 16, 2017 Insurers have pulled $20 billion out of coal investments, but most are European and none of the top nine U.S....
AXA Rebuffs Suitors Eyeing Its Asset Management Arm October 13, 2017 French insurer AXA has been approached by a number of players interested in doing a deal with its asset management...
Scotland’s Standard Life to Buy Aberdeen Asset Management for $4.7B March 6, 2017 By Sarah Jones Standard Life Plc, Scotland’s largest insurer, agreed to acquire Aberdeen Asset Management Plc for about 3.8 billion pounds ($4.7 billion),...
AIG Pulls $7 Billion from Asset Manager to Manage In-House October 14, 2016 By Sonali Basak and Jordyn Holman AllianceBernstein Holding LP became another victim of the hedge fund rout when American International Group Inc. decided to wind down...
AXA to Stop Investing in Tobacco, Divesting $2B of Assets in that Industry May 23, 2016 By Ross Larsen and Thomas Mulier AXA SA, France’s largest insurer, said it will stop investing in tobacco and divest all of its 1.8 billion euros...
Tokio Marine Targets Asean for Expansion Abroad: Southeast Asia July 29, 2013 By Tomoko Yamazaki and Komaki Ito Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., Japan’s second-largest non-life insurer, is seeking to expand in Southeast Asia as Japan’s shrinking population erodes...
Ameriprise in Talks to Buy ING’s Asian Asset Management Arm – Report September 27, 2012 Ameriprise Financial Inc is in advanced talks to buy most of ING Group’s asset management business in Asia, Bloomberg reported,...