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As re/insurers search for yield, risk to credit quality rises: Moody’s

22nd November 2017

Rating agency Moody's Investors Service has commented on regulator EIOPA's findings that insurers and reinsurers are searching for yield in their investment portfolios, but notes that this increases the risk to credit quality. A survey by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) found that in recent years re/insurers have ... Read the full article

Insurance Europe voices support of EC’s sustainable finance goals

25th July 2017

Following the release of a report from the European Commission’s (EC) High-Level Group on Sustainable Finance, and a recent EC public hearing, Insurance Europe has said the insurance industry is ready to collaborate and engage with policymakers to support their goals. The EC's High-Level Group on Sustainable Finance was launched in ... Read the full article

Munich Re buys another wind farm, to further diversify investments

1st June 2017

Global reinsurance firm Munich Re has signed an agreement with Eolus, the Swedish wind power developer, which will see all the shares in a wind farm development being acquired by the reinsurers MEAG asset management unit. Investment returns remain vital to reinsurers, perhaps more so in the low yield environment, but ... Read the full article

Re/insurers optimistic about investment and asset management opportunity: Goldman Sachs

5th May 2017

Goldman Sachs' latest insurer asset management survey reveals a dramatic change in the usual credit cycle for inflation, rates and equity returns, with only one-third of insurers now believing they're in the late stages of the credit cycle, compared with last year's three quarters of correspondants. This represents a reversal in ... Read the full article

Re/insurance set for lower returns as higher-yielding assets mature: Warren Buffett

27th February 2017

Warren Buffett’s annual letter to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway is always peppered with insights, and this years edition was no different. Buffett pointed out a number of interesting trends affecting the reinsurance industry today and even made the odd forecast for the future. One of his forecasts was something he has ... Read the full article

Swiss Re CEO calls for tradable resilient infrastructure asset class

25th January 2017

Christian Mumenthaler, the Group CEO of global reinsurance firm Swiss Re, has called for the development of a "standardised and tradable" global infrastructure asset class, into which firms such as his own could invest their long-term capital while helping to increase resilience. In an article timed to coincide with the World ... Read the full article