22 January 2025

Are the Magnificent Seven the only tech game in town?

Analysis

20 January 2025

The NAIC is cooking up a hearty bowl of reform, how should US insurers prepare for the meal?

From risk-based capital to GEMS and the Insurer Investment Regulation Framework, 2025 could be a busy year
15 January 2025

Tariffs and taxes and Trump, oh my!

Zurich guides us down the yellow brick road and into the investment landscape for 2025, including a slowing rate cut trajectory, an extension of the current business cycle, and trade uncertainty
13 January 2025

Driving the sustainable infra highway

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

From the knowable to the unknowable: Preparing for 2025

As insurers and their asset managers settle back behind their desks after the festive period, we look at some of the themes that could dominate the next few months
06 January 2025

BPA market steamrolls through 2024, but where's the drama?

UK PRT market volume is expected to settle around the £45bn mark, L&G's latest Endgame report suggests, but are pension schemes finding it increasingly difficult to catch insurer's eyes?

News

  • Fed to hold rates and ECB to cut next week, AllianzGI says

    24 January 2025

  • Scottish Widows signs RI partnership with Robeco

    24 January 2025

  • PGIM Real Estate re-hires head of agency lending

    24 January 2025

  • Irwell Insurance appoints new CFO from Chesnara

    24 January 2025

  • TPG Real Estate takes 50% stake in M&G Real Estate logistics portfolio

    24 January 2025

  • Chart of the Week: Trump 2.0 - will he? Won't he?

    24 January 2025

  • UK insurers will struggle to meet government's investment hopes for UK PLC, CreditSights says

    23 January 2025

  • AXA IM Alts' real estate debt platform raises €4bn and deploys €3bn

    23 January 2025

  • AllianzGI's EM climate fund reaches final size of €450m

    23 January 2025

  • Ping An lending backs local fossil fuel firm's transition push

    23 January 2025

  • FSA reveals Japanese insurance membership of Stewardship Code

    23 January 2025

  • QBE joins venture to fund climate- and socially-aware businesses

    23 January 2025

  • Mapfre appoints general manager for French asset management arm

    22 January 2025

  • Schroders Capital appoints global head of infrastructure

    22 January 2025

  • Manulife IM boots agricultural portfolio with greenhouse business investment

    22 January 2025

  • The win/win/potential 'lose' of insurers expanding their affiliated AMs

    22 January 2025

  • Private credit, insurance now make up over half Blackstone, Apollo, KKR and Carlyle portfolio, says Moody's

    22 January 2025

  • Apcia calls for cat bond issue, to "recapitalise and stabilise" FAIR Plan

    22 January 2025

  • Man Group warns of challenges ahead for asset-intensive reinsurance

    21 January 2025

  • L&G launches regional extension to Affordable Housing Fund

    21 January 2025

  • Lloyd's London Bridge investment platform reaches $1.92bn deployed

    21 January 2025

  • Axa IM Alts fully lets London's 22 Bishopsgate

    21 January 2025

  • MEAG invests in €606m Proxiserve refinancing

    21 January 2025

  • Generali and BPCE announce world's largest insurance asset management platform

    21 January 2025

Event

31 March 2025, 8:50 AM BST

Investing in Real Assets Conference 2025

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

Webinar

25 February 2025, 2:00 PM GMT

UK insurers appetite for private IG credit

In this webinar, we will explore some of the key opportunities for UK insurers looking at making the most of this asset class.

Investment grade private credit focus

Exploring the IG private credit boom

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  1. Private credit, insurance now make up over half Blackstone, Apollo, KKR and Carlyle portfolio, says Moody's
  2. Man Group warns of challenges ahead for asset-intensive reinsurance
  3. The NAIC is cooking up a hearty bowl of reform, how should US insurers prepare for the meal?
  4. Generali and BPCE announce world's largest insurance asset management platform
  5. AXA IM Alts' real estate debt platform raises €4bn and deploys €3bn
  6. L&G launches regional extension to Affordable Housing Fund
  7. PGIM Real Estate re-hires head of agency lending
  8. UK insurers will struggle to meet government's investment hopes for UK PLC, CreditSights says
  9. Lloyd's London Bridge investment platform reaches $1.92bn deployed
  10. The win/win/potential 'lose' of insurers expanding their affiliated AMs

Spotlight: 2025 Outlook

13 November 2024

What does Trump's barnstorming victory mean for insurers?

CIOs Insurance Asset Risk spoke to in the run up to the election were right on the money when it came to predicting a Trump victory, but how can insurers and their asset managers prepare for his second stint at the White House?
27 November 2024

Europe vs the US in 2025: Which is the better placed to boom?

"Lost decade" of poor European equities is over according to DWS's new global CIO, but US could be better placed for growth
06 January 2025

BPA market steamrolls through 2024, but where's the drama?

UK PRT market volume is expected to settle around the £45bn mark, L&G's latest Endgame report suggests, but are pension schemes finding it increasingly difficult to catch insurer's eyes?
08 January 2025

From the knowable to the unknowable: Preparing for 2025

As insurers and their asset managers settle back behind their desks after the festive period, we look at some of the themes that could dominate the next few months

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

  • AXA IM Alts' real estate debt platform raises €4bn and deploys €3bn

  • Ping An lending backs local fossil fuel firm's transition push

  • FSA reveals Japanese insurance membership of Stewardship Code

  • QBE joins venture to fund climate- and socially-aware businesses

  • Sumitomo Life outsources for local PE/buyout exposure growth

  • Tokio Marine AM holds out hope for cure to cancer

  • NFRA reminds China's insurers about options for allocating to local property

  • APAC Weekly - Why LA's burning matters for APAC insurers

  • Local share falls trim equity risk capital bill in South Korea

  • Daido Life finds outsourcing partner for PE investing in local SMEs

  • South Korean watchdog details insurers' foreign property exposures

  • PGF Life widens scope of stewardship to local shares

Outsourcing

  • Scottish Widows signs RI partnership with Robeco

  • Generali and BPCE announce world's largest insurance asset management platform

  • Phoenix Group calls for even more risk-friendly MA sandbox

  • Embattled Thai insurer gets M&A offer for affiliated manager

People

  • PGIM Real Estate re-hires head of agency lending

  • Irwell Insurance appoints new CFO from Chesnara

  • Mapfre appoints general manager for French asset management arm

  • Schroders Capital appoints global head of infrastructure

Regulation

  • UK insurers will struggle to meet government's investment hopes for UK PLC, CreditSights says

  • APAC Weekly - APAC's public natcat reinsurers watch California (tie itself in knots)

  • The NAIC is cooking up a hearty bowl of reform, how should US insurers prepare for the meal?

  • The bond definition is live and "the times they are a-changin'"

Systems/Data

  • 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?

  • Winners of the 2024 Insurance Asset Risk North America awards