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Weekly investment news

29/09/2025 | Zurich Ireland

Trump takes a jab at pharma

Global equities posted marginal gains in EUR terms last week. This was despite a few market jitters in the US after Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s comments that “by many measures…equity prices are fairly highly valued”, which prevented major indices from setting their fourth record in a row on Tuesday. 
22/09/2025 | Zurich Ireland

Fed cuts rates…what’s next?

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve decided to reduce interest rates by 25bps, the first cut in nine months.
15/09/2025 | Zurich Ireland

Getting to the top is easier than staying there

AI was leading the news again last week, but this time none of the Magnificent Seven companies were responsible.

Monthly investment news

22/09/2025 | Zurich Ireland

September 2025 monthly investment news

Last month brought solid returns across major asset classes. The second-quarter earnings season continued, with Nvidia standing out for exceeding sales and earnings expectations.

31/07/2025 | Zurich Ireland

July 2025 monthly investment news

Last month global equities showed impressive resilience, recovering some of the ground lost earlier in the year in local currency terms.

26/06/2025 | Zurich Ireland

June 2025 monthly investment news

In May, markets continued their recovery from April’s lows as consumer sentiment improved and trade tensions eased.

Yearly investment outlook

25/07/2025 | Zurich Ireland

Uncertainty Resolved? Distinguishing signal from noise

The Zurich Investment Outlook is produced twice yearly by the team at Zurich Investments, based in Dublin, Ireland. This publication provides an in-depth insight into our current thinking and positioning, and expands on the reasons behind our economic views to our clients and customers.
14/01/2025 | Zurich Ireland

Maintaining perspective: Investment outlook 2025

As we enter 2025, we look to maintain perspective and to balance the risks across respective asset classes.

17/01/2024 | Zurich Ireland

Balancing Act – Investment Outlook 2024

As we enter 2024, we have a broadly balanced asset allocation stance, namely a neutral weighting in equities and a much-increased weighting in bonds. This follows a steady reduction in equity exposure throughout the last quarter of 2023.

Responsible investments

02/03/2023 | Zurich Ireland

Responsible Investment with Zurich

Responsible investment means different things to different people. For Zurich Insurance Group, Responsible Investment is all about doing well and doing good, and this is echoed by the activities of Zurich in Ireland.

20/12/2021 | Zurich Ireland

Save for your retirement the right way

Zurich Life’s active investment strategy is about doing well - and doing good at the same time. This article is an Irish Times Content Studio production.

21/12/2020 | Zurich Ireland

Zurich receives high scores in Responsible Investment assessment report

Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) is delighted to have been rated highly across a number of categories in the latest 2020 United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) assessment report.

 

19/11/2019 | Zurich Ireland

Talking about Responsible Investment

Ian Slattery, Investment Consultant with Zurich examines the concept of responsible investing and explains why it’s such an important talking point in the DC pensions market.