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CIO Interview: New interest rate regime requires creativeness, PIC's Rob Groves says
19 February 2024In the first part of this two part interview, PIC chief investment officer Rob Groves discusses the make up of the UK insurer's portfolio and how to balance creative and conservative investment strategies.
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Market volatility is our friend, and 2024 set to be one of the most volatile years, Phoenix CIO Eakins says
12 February 2024Phoenix eyes more investment in UK social housing as a result of matching adjustment reforms, and Eakins says regulatory changes should allow insurer to focus more investment on productive assets
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Regulation and lack of council expertise is driving investment inequality in the UK
17 January 2024PIC's managing director, Hayley Rees, explains on behalf of the Purposeful Finance Commission how local council constraints and a complex planning regime have held back investment outside the UK capital
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Comment - How life insurers might respond to the IMF on private equity risks
08 January 2024The IMF listed various risks of growing PE involvement in the re/insurance industry
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Benign or bust - The outlook for 2024 is anything but boring
03 January 2024Decisions from central banks, political instability, regulatory changes - many of the threats posed by 2024 are out of insurer's hands
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AG Insurance CIO discusses the return of optionality in insurance investing
13 December 2023Wim Vermeir examines the Belgium insurer's 2024 outlook titled 'the return of the returns'
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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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How can insurers hot-wire the energy transition?
06 December 2023Four insurance investors sat down together in London to discuss what role insurance investors should be playing in the energy transition, as well as the investment tools that are available to help them speed up the change
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"Talk to me..." US regulators tell insurers
22 November 2023Why nurturing engagement between insurers and regulators is key as contentious battles hot up
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An ex-Fed head preaches calmness in times of trouble
09 November 2023Thomas Sullivan, ex-Federal Reserve senior associate director, says macro risk is the biggest worry for insurance markets right now. But regulators should not be stymying investment innovation