Insurers Prefer Private Equity Investments over Hedge Funds: Survey April 22, 2021 By Carolyn Cohn LONDON — Insurers want to put more money into private equity this year while scaling back on hedge funds, a...
Many Climate Scientists Moving from Fieldwork to Jobs in Financial Services April 16, 2021 By Iain Withers, Carolyn Cohn and Simon Jessop LONDON – Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought...
‘Insure Our Future’ Pressures Lloyd’s to ‘Immediately Stop’ Insuring Fossil Fuel Projects April 15, 2021 By L.S. Howard Insure our Future, the anti-fossil-fuel campaign group, is pressuring Lloyd’s to immediately stop insuring coal and new oil and gas...
Catastrophe Bonds Positioned to Tap Into Demand for Socially Responsible Investments April 5, 2021 By Tasos Vossos Catastrophe bonds are being hailed as the next frontier for socially responsible investing. Such debt, which insures against natural disasters...
AM Best Signs Up to UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance, in Ratings Agency First March 19, 2021 AM Best became a signatory of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI). The insurance industry...
‘Green’ Investment Funds Less Vulnerable to Climate-Related Shocks: EU Watchdog March 17, 2021 By Huw Jones Funds investing in “brown” or polluting companies would be hit far harder than environmentally friendly “green” funds in a climate-related...
EU Prepares to Get Tougher on Asset Managers that ‘Greenwash’ Sustainable Credentials March 10, 2021 By Simon Jessop and Kate Abnett LONDON/BRUSSELS – For money managers and advisers keen to market their sustainable investing credentials to European clients, going green is...
RenaissanceRe Creates Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Strategic Areas January 13, 2021 RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. has announced three strategic focus areas as part of its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy: Promoting...
Willis Towers Watson Partners with Polecat Intelligence on Emerging Risk Analysis December 18, 2020 Willis Towers Watson, the global advisory, broking and solutions company, announced a partnership with Polecat Intelligence Ltd,, a business intelligence...
Top Investor Group Including Allianz Warns Firms to Cut Ties to Coal November 9, 2020 By Simon Jessop Some of the world’s largest insurers and pension schemes are warning companies they invest in not to finance, insure, build,...