24 April 2025

CIO interview: In praise of the grey hairs

Analysis

23 April 2025

When Lloyd's syndicates go investing, past patterns may not reflect future plans

If the image of Lloyd's syndicates conjures up 'uniformly conservative' investors, then key outsourcing partners to the market tell David Walker, a 'rethink' may be in order
21 April 2025

RE debt investors watchword for 2025?: 'Uncertainty'

Audience at Insurance Asset Risk's Investing in Real Assets Conference 2025 in London hears that tentative RE rebound has stalled - thanks to geopolitics
17 April 2025

How to make infrastructure investments in an over saturated market? Diversify!

Emerging markets are an increasingly wise prospect, IAR's recent Investing in Real Asset Conference in London has heard

News

  • Mirova invests $40m across three nature-based carbon projects

    25 April 2025

  • Robeco launches 3D Emerging Markets UCITS ETF

    25 April 2025

  • AllianzGI calls rise of impact investing "the trend of this decade"

    25 April 2025

  • Chart of the Week - Viva a revolução! Portugal's lifers make decisive turn, to market risk

    25 April 2025

  • M&G Investments appoints direct lending head

    24 April 2025

  • Just Group completes £28m buy-in ELG Haniel Metals Limited Pension and Assurance Scheme

    24 April 2025

  • Mirova expands biodiversity engagement campaign to STOXX 600 companies

    24 April 2025

  • Helvetia and Baloise to form insurer with CHF 139.05 balance sheet assets

    23 April 2025

  • Forget about finding 'neutral' ECB rates, RLAM says

    23 April 2025

  • AEW acquires Dutch logistics asset

    22 April 2025

  • Aviva Investors forward funds 133 homes in Bedfordshire, UK

    22 April 2025

  • APAC Weekly: Super long-term JGBs for 'super-long' citizens

    22 April 2025

  • Comment: NAIC shifts from aspiration to execution of revising investment oversight

    21 April 2025

Event

10 June 2025, 8:50 AM

Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2025

Debate the key risks, challenges, and opportunities facing insurers today.
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  5. APAC Weekly: Super long-term JGBs for 'super-long' citizens
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  7. Forget about finding 'neutral' ECB rates, RLAM says
  8. APAC Weekly - Myanmar's (uninsured) disaster will test the humanity of global community
  9. Aviva Investors forward funds 133 homes in Bedfordshire, UK
  10. M&G Investments appoints direct lending head

Insurance Asset Risk UK & Europe Awards 2025

Insurance Asset Risk Awards 2025 - UK & Europe

The awards formally recognise the very best in insurance asset management for the UK and European markets. The winners have been revealed.

How Blackstone sets itself apart

Blackstone takes a customised approach to working with its insurance clients, and believes its scale and capital-lite approach makes it uniquely placed to partner with its clients globally. The firm's global head of insurance business spoke to Insurance Asset Risk.

Building the future

L&G's investments in affordable housing and digital infrastructure has made it the winner of two awards. Alex Wharton, Managing Director of Partnerships and Insurance within the Asset Management division, explains how it all fits together.

Investing for tomorrow

Royal London Asset Management's Head of Equities, Mike Fox and Head of Global Equities, Paul Schofield, discuss their equity market capabilities and what may lie ahead for investors in 2025.

Finding value in a turbulent world

The real estate market has seen great turbulence in recent years. Per Erikson, head of real estate at Swiss Life Asset Managers sat down to explain how the firm manages to not only find, but add value, into its transactions and holdings.

Spotlight: Sustainable Investing

13 January 2025

Driving the sustainable infra highway

Jérôme Jean Haegeli discusses how and why sustainable infrastructure needs to become a tradeable asset class
27 January 2025

ESG is on trial. Are you ready to convict?

The term ESG has become box office poison in recent months. Is it dead and buried or looking for a new definition?
19 February 2025

A river runs through it

For all the political noise against ESG, asset managers tell Insurance Asset Risk nothing has changed, and their sustainability offerings and strategies are seeing an insatiable demand
17 March 2025

Scottish Widows' head of RI on AI and AMs' voting records

Eva Cairns, head of responsible investment at Scottish Widows, explains the firm's governance policy around AI and the outcome of expecting voting policy adherence from asset managers

Focus on Asia Pacific

More on Asia Pacific
16 April 2025

Japanese lifers looking for a beacon in the equity markets storm

With trade wars sending markets haywire, and equities being the highest risk in insurers' investment portfolios, investment and risk teams are holding firm, in the hope of a window of blue sky

  • APAC Weekly: Super long-term JGBs for 'super-long' citizens

  • COTW: Nippon Life aims to address Japanese 'ESG paradox'

  • PGIM Real Estate appoints deputy head of Asia Pacific

  • Sumitomo Life ups FY2025 ESG thematic investment target to JPY 1trn

  • APAC Weekly - Would you panic-buy rice?

  • Manulife IM makes first direct property purchase in Australia

  • Treasury yield spikes may reflect investors' economic downturn fears, AllianzGI says

  • Zurich Australia appoints new CIO

  • Manulife IM and Aberdeen spell out China's options after Trump's steep tariffs

  • Comment - A good time for insurers to divest Japanese cross-shareholdings?

  • Comment: China's regulator picks one helluva day, to promote Chinese insurers' shareholdings

  • APAC Weekly - 'How to Spend It': Japan's authorities allocate most 'green bond' proceeds to climate adaptation

Outsourcing

  • Schroders takes £2.1bn management mandate for Scottish Friendly

  • SLAM acquires majority stake in European aerial emergency services firm

  • Guardian Life forms investment partnership with Janus Henderson

  • SLAM takes £120m new account mandate for UK education charity

People

  • M&G Investments appoints direct lending head

  • Canada Life Reinsurance appoints new CIO

  • M&G Investments appoints M&G (Lux) Nature and Biodiversity Solutions fund manager

  • Axa IM appoints new portfolio manager to focus on US equity

Regulation

  • Comment: NAIC shifts from aspiration to execution of revising investment oversight

  • Fitch predicts third £40bn+ year for UK BPA market

  • PartnerRe life and health business joins ABI

  • Japanese lifers looking for a beacon in the equity markets storm

Systems/Data

  • Winners of the 2025 Insurance Asset Risk EMEA awards

  • Axa IM hails blockchain trials a success

  • Mapfre AM to unify investment process for public and private assets

  • Til tech do us part - are AI investments a love story for the ages?