European insurers to face climate stress tests in 2020
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa) is set to include climate change and…
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The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa) is set to include climate change and…
Investors,Policy,Stranded Assets,Insurance
Insurers and banks are to be expected to manage and report their climate-related risks, according to…
Debt,Investors,Policy,Insurance
Politicians “will eat insurers’ lunch” if they try to walk away from insuring areas that suffer the adverse…
Insurance
Insured losses from typhoon Mangkhut in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau are estimated to range between…
Investors,Insurance
Insured losses from hurricane Florence, which caused widespread devastation across North Carolina earlier…
Investors,Insurance
To coincide with our Insurance & Climate Risk Americas conference, Environmental Finance conducted a Q&A interview with keynote speaker Maurice Tulloch, CEO, international insurance, at Aviva.
Investors,Policy,Insurance
Peter Cripps asks whether the great Warren Buffett could have been wrong when he said insurers don't need to worry about climate change.
Investors,Insurance
Investors with a combined $6.24 trillion in assets have publicly committed to divest from fossil fuels,…
Investors,Stranded Assets,Insurance
Italian insurance group Assicurazioni Generali has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire a majority…
Insurance
Last year's spate of severe natural catastrophes caused Europe's non-life insurers cumulatively to make…
Insurance
The trend that has seen insurers pay increasing attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG)…
Insurance
Solvency II capital requirements should be used to measure and capture risks and not as a base to artificially…
Insurance
The insurance industry must work harder to improve its consideration of environmental, social and governance…
ESG,Insurance
California's Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has been threatened with US lawsuits for his efforts to act on climate-related risks. Undeterred, he hopes his work can now drive international action, he tells Michael Hurley
Policy,Insurance
Global economic losses from disasters plunged to $36 billion in the first half of 2018 from $64 billion…
Investors,Policy,Insurance
Insurers increasingly ESG screen their investments, but even the value of their favoured asset is at…
Insurance
The CEO of Munich Re has announced a new climate and divestment policy for the German reinsurer, in a…
Stranded Assets,Insurance
Three major UK insurers have been accused of failing to take into account climate risks in their business…
Insurance
Insurers have a great deal of experience modelling natural catastrophes and this expertise will be core to how the sector copes with climate change risk. But transferring the knowledge is not straightforward, and getting the right data to the right people remains a struggle, as participants discuss in part one of this two-part roundtable from InsuranceERM and DWS.
Insurance
German insurers have warned the European Commission (EC) against formulating inflexible rules around…
Investors,Policy,Insurance
Conservation finance may appear to be one of the most esoteric investment niches, but experimentation and innovation is giving way to proof of concept – attracting a growing number of institutional investors along the way. Mark Nicholls reports
Is managed decline the only way?
