19 March 2025

Time and experience are making CIO's plans for private assets much more intricate

Analysis

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
12 March 2025

Insurers double down on defence spending, while maintaining ESG exclusions

ESG and defence investments not mutually exclusive, insurers suggest, as NATO powers commit to spend more
10 March 2025

It will take more than Solvency tweaks to mobilise capital in UK plc

Private sector stakeholders highlight the need for more effective blended finance solutions at ABI annual conference

News

  • L&G completes combined £785m buy-in deal with Anglo American

    20 March 2025

  • WTW subsidiary appoints chief investment strategist

    20 March 2025

  • SLAM appoints new group CIO and head of RE in leadership shuffle

    20 March 2025

  • Axa IM Alts secures €660m in new commitments to European student accommodation strategy

    20 March 2025

  • From natcats to 'Mike Catts', Australian debt and homeowners are dodging bullets... but for how long?

    20 March 2025

  • A 'Happy Future' for Viridium and its new owners including BlackRock?

    20 March 2025

  • MEAG sells renewable energy portfolio in the UK

    20 March 2025

  • Consortium of insurers and asset managers acquire Viridium

    20 March 2025

  • French insurers seek asset manager for private biodiversity fund

    19 March 2025

  • Aviva Investors forward funds French logistics centre

    19 March 2025

  • Insurers lead institutional investors in impact and sustainable investing, Nuveen research finds

    19 March 2025

  • Tikehau and Axa partner for spicy investment in Spanish paprika

    19 March 2025

  • China Life AM maps out sizes of local private asset markets by 2024

    19 March 2025

Event

31 March 2025, 8:50 AM

Investing in Real Assets Conference 2025

Discuss the trends, forecasts, and risk/return characteristics for investments in infrastructure, real estate, and renewable energy.
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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
22 January 2025

Are the Magnificent Seven the only tech game in town?

AllianzGI's CIO global technology equity, Jeremy Gleeson, discusses the broadening out of tech investments in 2025, why early disappointments are to be expected, and the semiconductor cycle turning point

  • From natcats to 'Mike Catts', Australian debt and homeowners are dodging bullets... but for how long?

  • China Life AM maps out sizes of local private asset markets by 2024

  • Allianz flags possible step-up in Indian investing despite significant disposal plans

  • China Life AM announces use of DeepSeek for alternative investing

  • APAC Weekly - Can China's private equity rules ever fit its Marxist ideology?

  • China Life advocates solvency and ratings benefits for insurers buying into VC

  • Tokio Marine more than triples client engagement over climate emissions

  • China Life AM vows to 'support local' with its GA, as global tariff wars flare

  • Australians place their bets on climate change's likely trajectory

  • DEI is all about valuing staff, and driving earnings at APAC insurers

  • What China's largest life insurer really thinks about Warren Buffett

  • Sompo plans hybrid bond buying as equity sale proceeds accelerate

Outsourcing

  • French insurers seek asset manager for private biodiversity fund

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

  • Nippon Life shifts GA assets to build Nissay AM's life investment skills

  • St James' Place adds US managers to outsourcing roster in 2024

People

  • WTW subsidiary appoints chief investment strategist

  • SLAM appoints new group CIO and head of RE in leadership shuffle

  • PGIM Fixed Income re-appoints ex-Biden administration advisor as chief global economist

  • BarmeniaGothaer names next head of asset management unit

Regulation

  • UK insurers welcome Planning and Infrastructure Bill

  • Insurers double down on defence spending, while maintaining ESG exclusions

  • EU's Savings and Investments Union plans: new policy, old hurdles

  • Better planning needed if insurers are to play full part in funding energy transition, Phoenix Group 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?