Legal & General
Nervous UK pension schemes want liquidity fixes – it’ll cost them
Asset managers are crafting new ways for schemes to raise cash in a crisis
LGIM blasts ‘dangerous’ netting of short positions on carbon emitters
Netting shorts on big polluters distracts investors from task of persuading firms to slow climate change
Sending the right signals: quantifying and repricing risk
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BlackRock’s own reporting undermines its climate claims
Axa, Allianz and Legal & General have all cut their investments’ emissions, unlike BlackRock
BlackRock to grant funds power to track climate risks
Aladdin system holding trillions of dollars to show whether funds are burning the Earth or saving it
The race to offload the world’s biggest pool of assets
Specialist insurers on both sides of the Atlantic expect a bumper post-Covid second half of 2021
Funds rush to take the temperature of their portfolios
Big investors, including BlackRock, are using new metrics to measure their funds’ carbon emissions
Top European insurers bet on private equity
Allianz and Axa had a combined €29 billion at end-2019
Sliding rates dent Legal & General’s capital ratio
Solvency capital requirement rises to £8.2 billion from £7.9 billion over first half of 2019
L&G’s counterparty risk charge almost doubles in two years
Operational and market risk charges also climb at UK group
Bank risk committees: desperately seeking risk managers
Most boards still lack career risk specialists despite tighter governance requirements
Solvency II capital charges concentrated in two key risks
Market risk SCR averages 37% across six large insurers
Another Brexit: UK heading for Solvency II risk margin fix
PRA to approve local cut to risk margin but implementation may be postponed until after March 2019
Life firms irked by patchy matching adjustment approvals
UK regulator could have been more clear about success of bolder submissions, say advisers
Life firms split on what risk margin means for bulk annuities
L&G predicts record volumes, but Aegon and UK's Prudential say risk-margin costs too high
Paul Stanworth, L&G, on liability-matching 'fringe' assets
UK insurer plans wider range of investments for annuity fund
RBS structured products head joins BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas recruits von Gunten from RBS as head of client strategy
LGIM names So as index fund head, and other recent job moves
So joins from Enhanced Investment Products, where he was beta product head
Fixed income specialist Coherence Capital names senior portfolio manager
Coherence Capital Partners makes senior portfolio manager appointment as Legal & General Investment Management names two to its asset allocation team in tactical asset allocation research and strategy
L&G blames low interest rates as it quits UK retail structured products
Legal & General exits the market following a reported decline in sales, putting an end to its distribution of Barclays-backed plans
Market snapshot: Capital-at-risk and Barclays lead the way
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