Insurance – Page 4
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Insurers hungry for risk as geopolitical jitters abate: BlackRock survey
Proportion of insurers looking to increase risk rises to half, from 9% a year earlier
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UK DB deficits could halve via new risk transfers, derivatives: report
Hymans Robertson advocates use of emerging “end-game” insurance products
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Bankrupt UK retailer’s pension fund secures €895m insurance buyout
Pension Insurance Corporation insures benefits of BHS scheme after two years of public scrutiny of former owners
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NewsPrudential and Aviva strike first longevity reinsurance deal
Transaction hits hot UK de-risking market
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Pension Insurance Corporation seals two more de-risking transactions
Civil Aviation Authority and 600 Group have both insured some or all of their pension liabilities
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Mandate roundup: North Yorkshire appoints insurance bonds manager
Plus: London CIV first fixed income fund, custodian switch, member data service provision
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Pension Corp strikes £900m reinsurance deal with Prudential
Latest transaction covers 7,500 pensioners across two UK pension schemes insured by PIC
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APG mulls future of insurance subsidiary Loyalis
Provider’s 2017 profit cut by €74m after cost pressure from clients
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NewsAllianz expands climate strategy to align with 2°C target
Strategy to be implemented across insurer’s investments and insurance business
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NewsSwiss funding levels fell in Q1 2018 after 1.3% average loss
Public sector Pensionskassen APK and PKBS post 2017 investment returns in line with market average
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NewsUK regulator warns insurers over illiquid assets and alternatives
Prudential Regulatory Authority says insurance companies need to understand the underlying risks of alternative debt assets
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Kingfisher insures £200m in deal with PIC
£4bn pension scheme of building supplies group has now insured more than 10% of its liabilities
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Swiss investors diversify insurance-linked portfolios after difficult 2017
Significant losses experienced in 2017 from concentrated hurricane risk
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North Yorkshire eyes insurance-linked bonds amid 'urgent review'
Public sector fund looking to introduce new lower-risk asset classes
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NewsBlockchain comes to bond market as Lombard Odier backs $15m deal
Swiss asset manager claims first bond transaction using distributed ledger technology
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FeaturesInsurance-linked securities: Embracing catastrophic risks
Insurance-linked securities (ILS) are an asset class based upon insurance events. They provide an element of diversity to portfolios. Put simply, a market collapse is unlikely to be correlated to a natural disaster.
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Pension Corp seals $1.2bn longevity reinsurance deal
UK specialist insurer has taken on pension scheme liabilities worth more than £2bn in 2017
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Mandate roundup: Channel Islands, Border to Coast, IPE Discovery
European insurer puts out feelers via IPE Quest’s Discovery service
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Insurance regulators support climate risk disclosure
Group of supervisors outline how they will incorporate climate risk into their work
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German insurance-based pension funds sceptical about BRSG
Only a quarter believe introducing DC to Germany will provide opportunities for their businesses
