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  • Generali Investments eyes green bond market opportunities

    05 February 2020

    Affiliate of Italian giant launches its first sub-fund investing in green and sustainable bonds

  • Generali joins Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance

    22 January 2020

    Alliance members collectively hold $4.3trn of assets

  • Insurers likely to issue more green bonds

    08 October 2019

    Strong reception and regulatory shifts to boost market, says AM Best

  • Bonds round-up: Generali, EBRD, NIB, PostNL, and more ...

    25 September 2019

    Generali issues first green bond from a European insurance company

  • Generali becomes first EU insurer to issue a green bond

    24 September 2019

    Italy’s Generali has become the first EU insurer to issue a “green bond”.

  • Integrate climate risk now, insurers told

    16 September 2019

    Insurers should start integrating climate risk into their management and business operations now, and not wait for the perfect tools, according to a report from the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) and UK charity ShareAction.

  • Major US insurer stops investing in or insuring coal

    09 August 2019

    Chubb's decision reflects the increasing risks in the coal sector as a result of efforts to tackle climate change, argues Dave Jones

  • QBE reveals coal exclusion policy

    03 April 2019

    Australian insurer QBE will target zero direct investment in the thermal coal industry by 1 July 2019, according to its new energy policy.

  • French insurers’ climate-related disclosures mostly ‘difficult to understand’, says WWF

    26 November 2018

    French insurers' climate-related disclosures have improved, but the information is still often inaccessible and difficult to understand, according to research by WWF France.

  • Hannover Re defends coal investing

    12 November 2018

    Reply to criticism comes on heels of Vienna Insurance Group's own defence