Investment Officers
Insurers Get Low Grades on Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss Action
Most of the world's largest insurers are failing to adequately address systemic risks such as climate change and biodiversity loss, but a group of five U.S. insurers are some of those that rank the ...
InsurTech Startup Omnidya Sees Benefits in Crowdfunding Versus Straight VC
Most InsurTech startups seek out venture capital to help fuel their initial development goals. Omnidya is turning to a crowdfunding campaign to raise money. Omnidya's Founder and CEO Kumar Patel is ...
Aviva Will Shut Down Three UK Property Funds Hammered by Pandemic Market Uncertainty
Insurer Aviva said it will close three UK property funds in July that have been suspended since March last year due to market uncertainty as the pandemic hit Britain's economy. "During this period of ...
Insurance, Tech Stocks Outpace InsurTechs in 2021: New HSCM Index
Stock prices of 18 U.S. InsurTechs that went public in the last decade soared as a group in 2020. But so far in 2021, large non-insurance technology companies and traditional insurance stocks both ...
Liberty Mutual Places Australian Coal Project on Hold, Seeking Alternatives
U.S. insurer Liberty Mutual will not be filing an environmental impact assessment for a coal project in Australia, it said on Friday, missing a deadline as it weighs alternatives for the proposed ...
Insurers Will Boost Private Equity Investments, Scale Back Hedge Fund Focus
Insurers want to put more money into private equity this year while scaling back on hedge funds, a survey by Goldman Sachs Asset Management showed on Wednesday. Private equity was the most-favored ...
Executives On The Move at Hippo, Chubb and Buckle
Hippo hired four new executives in its legal department who will help the company hit the public markets through a reverse merger transaction announced in March. Chubb appointed a rising executive ...
Liberty Mutual, Starr Join Bitcoin Investment Firm’s $100M Funding Round
Liberty Mutual and Starr Insurance Companies are among property/casualty carriers who joined a $100 million funding round for NYDIG, a technology and financial services firm focused on bitcoin. The ...