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Direct action - Asset origination moves centre stage in re/insurers' investment plans
20 December 2023From backing BPAs to enhancing investment yields, directly-originated assets, and the managers able to source them, are finding favour among re/insurers worldwide, David Walker discovers
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Comment: The NAIC's evolving reliance on agency ratings
19 December 2023Amnon Levy analyses the developments from the 2023 Fall National Meeting
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When Japan sneezes
11 December 2023Japan's economy has seen a sea change this year as the BoJ loosens what seems like it has been a lifetime of low rates. Life insurers are preparing to make their own moves on the back of this—which could impact the rest of the world.
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Time for politicians to make polluters pay, Steve Waygood says
29 November 2023Aviva Investors' chief responsible investment officer discusses the asset manager's macro-stewardship programme and why markets will collapse if governments don't rise to the challenge
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Carbon capture investments are increasing - what are the benefits?
27 November 2023Technology and scalability have been doubted in the past - but investors are taking the plunge in increasing numbers
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How can insurers take advantage of banks retreating from private assets?
15 November 2023Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 discussed the virtues of investing in private assets, as well as the importance of portfolio diversification
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Opportunities exist in CRE - even if offices face a GFC-style crisis
13 November 2023Panellists at the Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference discuss the current environment in CRE, and the inevitable crisis faced by the office sector
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Alternatives on the mind
31 October 2023Mercer has been developing the alternatives bucket for its smaller US insurer clients. It has also been looking to assist with ESG goals. So far, however, its clients have shown more ambition than action as the company's co-head of US insurance, Chris Tschida, explaines
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Revisiting liquidity risk in times of high interest rates and banking failures
30 October 2023Panellists at Insurance Risk and Capital Bermuda 2023 conference discuss their approach to liquidity risk as regulatory scrutiny increases and market volatility provides challenges
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Hydrogen on the way up?
25 October 2023Insurers and their asset managers are taking tentative steps into the world of green hydrogen investing to capture a first mover premium and shore up net-zero strategies. But what's holding insurers back from flying away with the gas?