Archive

  • Revisiting liquidity risk in times of high interest rates and banking failures

    30 October 2023

    Panellists at Insurance Risk and Capital Bermuda 2023 conference discuss their approach to liquidity risk as regulatory scrutiny increases and market volatility provides challenges

  • Hydrogen on the way up?

    25 October 2023

    Insurers 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?

  • Insurance Asset Risk's Responsible Investing for Insurers conference round up

    16 October 2023

    The conference was held in London on 16 October and highlighted the challenges and dilemmas insurers face in building and implementing sustainable investment strategies

  • Designing natural capital funds for insurers' investment needs

    09 October 2023

    Launched in 2020, Climate Asset Management designed two strategies one of which is focused on sourcing natural capital investment opportunities for insurers. Megan Reilly Cayten, senior investment manager, explains what the fund invests in, and why it has been more successful with European insurers than US ones.

  • Are utilities a more risky business than investors think?

    02 October 2023

    With recent turbulence in the water utilities sector, the traditional image of utilities as low-risk, highly regulated and stable assets may have been upended - but do insurers still view the sector as a safe bet?

  • Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference round up

    26 September 2023

    The conference was held in New York on 26 September and highlighted key opportunities in private markets as well as challenges in the regulatory space

  • Bought-into the PRT market hype?

    25 September 2023

    Pension risk transfers in the US have seen record years, a trend set to continue in 2023. Aon senior partner Ari Jacobs discusses the drivers for that boom.

  • Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) KPIs for Alternative Investments under SFDR

    21 September 2023

    2023 has been an extremely important year for Article 4 SFDR investors in the EU such as life insurers, pension funds or alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs). They were required to publish the first Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) statement for the reference year in 2022 no later than 30 June 2023 so that now you have a lot to read on their websites.

  • CIOs to fasten seatbelts for bumpy landing as Fed spots runway

    13 September 2023

    "The Fed won't hike rates next week," former president of Kansas City Fed predicts. While asset owners are at odds on the likelihood of a recession and asset managers brace themselves for what will not be a "piece of (cheese)cake"

  • Smoke and mirrors exercise in assessing climate risk in sovereigns

    04 September 2023

    NZAOA puts draft fourth edition of target-setting protocol up for public consultation