Insurance – Page 6
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Special ReportInsurance-Linked Securities: Taking the market by storm
Insurance-linked securities are gaining popularity as a diversifying asset class, but what are the available strategies, underlying risks and costs?
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News
Insurance, ESG groups set out IORP II trialogue wishlist
InsuranceEurope, responsible investment groups set out key hopes for outcome of negotiations
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Features
European Insurance & Occupational Pensions Authority Conference: Framing the DC debate
Gathering in Frankfurt for the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority’s (EIOPA) annual conference, delegates could be forgiven for assuming the address by chairman Gabriel Bernardino would reflect on his previous successes, and avoid any controversial new proposals.
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News
European insurance company tenders green bond mandate
Client seeking ‘high-level ESG analysis’ with bottom-up focus
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News
Germany's HDI quits insurance-linked pension vehicles
News confirms trend of insurers ‘lowering guarantees’ in occupational pension products
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Special Report
Finland 2015 - Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company
Judge’s comment: “Elo seems to be well back on track, with direct lending to corporates and a brave hedge fund focus paying off”
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News
Longevity-linked securities also of use as short-term holdings, researchers argue
Need for higher transparency and better valuation of asset class if it is to succeed
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NewsLOIM hires catastrophe bond team to add new insurance-linked product
Gregor Gawron and team member poached from Dynapartners
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News
UK roundup: KPMG LDI survey, Pension Insurance Corporation, PICA
LDI market sees £32bn of new business over 2014, according to KPMG survey
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NewsInsurance company tenders €200m EM currency mandate using IPE-Quest
Strategy should combine top-down country/sector selection with bottom-up duration/issue selection
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Special Report
Euro-zone recovery: Insurance and repression
European insurers are finding ways to adapt to the prolonged period of low interest rates and unconventional monetary policy
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Features
Briefing: What the IASB insurance model could spell for pensions
With the IASB about to embark on an overhaul of pensions accounting, Stephen Bouvier looks at what it might mean to apply the board’s insurance liability model to a pension promise
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News
CMU needs more 'flexible' definition of infrastructure – Insurance Europe
Capital requirements, regulatory definitions for asset class need to be ‘urgently refined’
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News
Direct reinsurance contracts 'new norm' for longevity swaps, says PICA
Reinsurance firm says no new deals following traditional methods, UK pipelines to create pricing pressure in market
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News
Schroders mimics insurance volatility cap with post-Budget DC strategy
UK fund manager creates multi-asset fund with downside risk management
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News
UK tax exemption secures £9bn for infrastructure, private placement
Six UK companies commit £9bn to private placement, infrastructure debt investments after Autumn Statement
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Interviews
On The Record: Veritas Pension Insurance Company, Finland, Niina Bergring CIO
The growth divergence between the US and Europe, and the different behaviours of the respective central banks, will simply mean two things: that the euro will be even weaker than it is, and that interest rates will be rigged for even longer in Europe than in the US.
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News
Insurance lobby head set to become NEST chairman
ABI director general Otto Thoresen to take over from Lawrence Churchill from February 2015
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News
IORP II should not distinguish between DB, DC, says InsuranceEurope
European insurance body criticises revised IORP draft that sees proposed qualitative requirements to ‘even playing field’ between insurers, IORPs
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News
Prudential backs Welsh hydro-power plant despite annuity market changes
Prudential, one of six insurers to commit £25bn to government infrastructure plan, provides capital for £1bn tidal-energy plant in Wales
