A new scientific study has linked 15% of worldwide COVID-19 deaths with long-term exposure to air pollution, with the figure rising to as high as 27% in East Asia.
Property and casualty (P&C) insurers would have to collect business interruption premiums for 150 years to make up for the projected global output losses related to COVID-19 in 2020.
Assets under management (AUM) at the world’s 500 largest asset managers exceeded $100trn (£76.8trn) for the first time last year – totalling $104.4trn.
Less than half of asset managers around the world consider gender diversity when researching potential investments, despite recognising its importance within their own firms.
The Netherlands has topped a global ranking of pension systems covering almost two-thirds of the world’s population, with the UK languishing in fifteenth place.
Blockchain technologies will reach a tipping point in 2025 and be adopted at scale across the global economy, boosting GDP by nearly $2trn (£1.5trn) over the next decade, forecasts by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) suggest.
A growing number of investment firms are incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics into their decision-making worldwide, an annual survey by Russell Investments has uncovered.
Employer-sponsored health care benefit costs are expected to increase by more than 8% around the globe next year, a survey of medical insurers by Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has found.
Insurers, banks and institutional investors worldwide can now validate their climate goals through the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) for the first time.
The overwhelming majority of institutional investors that signed a UN agreement to help halt deforestation last year have failed to take sufficient action themselves.
