17 April 2025

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

Analysis

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
14 April 2025

Downturn will reveal who has been swimming naked in private markets, CIO of Convex says

David Dowsett, chief investment officer at Convex Insurance, sat down with Insurance Asset Risk, in a week that saw a market meltdown induced by President Trump's short-lived plan for global tariffs.
10 April 2025

CIO Interview: From oil driller to sustainable chief investment officer

Retiring NN chief investment officer Jelle van der Giessen reflects on his 30-year career

News

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

    18 April 2025

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

    17 April 2025

  • PartnerRe life and health business joins ABI

    17 April 2025

  • Canada Life Reinsurance appoints new CIO

    17 April 2025

  • New York Life and MIM invest in recreational fintech business

    16 April 2025

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

    16 April 2025

  • PGIM Real Estate appoints deputy head of Asia Pacific

    16 April 2025

  • Aviva Investors backs tech-focused VC firm

    16 April 2025

  • Schroders takes £2.1bn management mandate for Scottish Friendly

    15 April 2025

  • SLAM acquires majority stake in European aerial emergency services firm

    15 April 2025

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

    15 April 2025

  • Axa IM Alts completes €300m sale of Spanish real estate portfolio

    15 April 2025

  • MIM reaches $660m close on private equity fund

    15 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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  10. PGIM Real Estate appoints deputy head of Asia Pacific

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

  • 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

  • Chinese regulator raises insurers' equity ratio limits and VC fund ceilings

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

  • 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

  • AllianzGI shakes up CIO team

Regulation

  • 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

  • Just Group sticking with fixed cashflow assets in MA portfolios, SFCR says

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?