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Asia's CIOs face up to having to 'know it all'
03 July 2023Insurance investors discuss the lessons learned from the last few years of severe volatility, and reveal what [Chat] 'GPT' actually stands for, at Insurance Asset Risk's Hong Kong Seminar 2023. Compiled by Vincent Huck
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IAR EMEA audience dissatisfied with UK Solvency reform
28 June 2023But panellists point to the positives of the reform to insurers' investments, as Vincent Huck reports
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Why ESG has insurers running in circles
19 June 2023Insurers at Insurance Asset Risk's EMEA 2023 conference took issue with the real impact - or lack thereof - that currently sustainability regulation and ESG reporting standards can actually have, finding that trying to compare their own progress or that of their investee companies can have them feeling trapped in a nightmare. Josh Adcock reports
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Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2023 conference round up
12 June 2023The conference was held in London on 12 June and highlighted the investment risks and opportunities facing insurers. Vincent Huck reports
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The (very) fine art of triangulating investment risk, reward and Solvency II capital
31 May 2023Europe's CIOs are being challenged as never before to get investment and regulatory trade-offs right in portfolios. David Walker finds a tool built to help
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Equities exposures - feast, then famine, for Europe's CIOs
29 May 2023Whether they love them or hate them, Europe's CIOs hold shares, directly and in funds they came to about one-fifth of their GAs in Q3 2023. Appreciating or reviling the exposure may rather depend on the year, David Walker reports
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Italian CIOs welcome BTP yields rising - but maybe not their "exploding" - in 2022
24 May 2023While European CIOs welcomed debt yields heating up again in 2022, for Italians BTPs underwent a truly combustible expansion, David Walker finds
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Bolting for the door - could 'mass lapse' risk trigger 'mass bond sales' at French lifers?
04 May 2023Better interest rates mean better investment options than life policies. As France's exposed lifers watch on, some count up their liquid assets, some count on customer loyalty - but will all ultimately count on CIOs, to sell off GAs? David Walker reports
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How the matching adjustment has 'misfired' at many Spanish lifers
27 April 2023The MA has saved UK lifers truly vast sums of Solvency II capital. In Spain it's delivered some very mixed outcomes, David Walker reports.
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German life CIOs breath out, as the 'great ZZR unwind' begins
19 April 2023In past years, German lifers dispatched CIOs to raise cash to pay into their ZZRs - like it, or not. But that reversed, and sometimes heftily, as interest rates rose in 2022. David Walker reports