-
Real estate opportunities await in 2024, M&G says
10 January 2024Jose-Luis Pellicer, global head of investment strategy at M&G Real Estate, discusses the outlook for the real estate market next year with Insurance Asset Risk, and explains the 'mindset shift' the sector needs
-
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
-
A sense of doom and gloom greeted the arrival of 2023, but was it really as bad as expected?
01 January 2024Fixed income and sub-investment grade investments were key trends in a year that was not exactly benign
-
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
-
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'
-
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.
-
Building a climate aware SAA
20 November 2023Jean-François Coppenolle, Investment Director - ESG and Climate Integration at Abeille Assurances, describes how the insurer has build a climate aware investment strategy
-
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
-
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
-
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