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Solving the 'cash-drag' problem
05 July 2022As low rates keep hitting lifers and claims inflation bites non-lifers, managers serving them tell David Walker a review can help decide whether strategic cash can be redeployed, for a more meaningful role
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Illiquids: time to partner up?
28 June 2022Angela Jung, Senior Director of Investment ALM Risk at Athora, outlined to Insurance Asset Risk's 2022 EMEA conference why insurers should be preparing to face valuation risk on their journey into illiquids, and how asset managers could be the key to getting it right. Abbie Wood reports
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Things might go wrong, but if we live to see another day, it's all good - GSAM's Siegel says
22 June 2022Mike Siegel, Global Head of Goldman Sachs Insurance Asset Management, discusses the asset manager's annual insurance survey results, why inflation is the canary down the coalmine, and the risk of recession on the horizon.
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IAR EMEA: Prepare for a tough ride, economist warns
20 June 2022Swiss Re's chief economist Europe, Charlotte Müller told the audience at Insurance Asset Risk's 2022 EMEA conference to expect a recession, but not all speakers agreed. Abbie Wood reports
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Inflation - simply transitory or a permanent headache on the horizon?
15 June 2022The debate on whether current inflation is a transitory phenomenon or a structural shift came to life at Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2022 conference, where panelists discussed potential investment implication of each scenarios.
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Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2022 Conference round up
13 June 2022The conference was held in London on 13 June and highlighted how investment opportunities still abound for insurers in an environment of heightened volatility and a bleak macro outlook for the coming months. Vincent Huck reports
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Putin rams spanner into 2022's recovery
25 May 2022Late last year Generali predicted that "our social and economic lives will slowly normalise in 2022", and described the threat of stagflation as "overrated". Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February scuppered any chance of that normalisation.
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Stomaching volatility
24 May 2022Volatility, volatility everywhere and not a time to think. Guardian Life's CIO, Jean LaTorre, is dealing with what could be an unprecedented year of market storms, just two years into the job. Sarfraz Thind reports
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The tumultuous energy transition
16 May 2022Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy is a transition filled with tumult as investors are mired in questions of renewable capabilities and 'just transitions', the audience at Insurance Asset Risk Real Asset 2022 conference hears. Abbie Wood reports
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Winds of war prove further tailwinds for Generali Global Infrastructure
09 May 2022The task Generali set itself to help 'rebuild Europe' after COVID-19, focused mainly on infrastructure, has arguably taken on extra importance - and opportunity - David Walker discovers