Archive

  • PPOs pose major asset-matching challenge

    23 July 2014

    UK general insurers consider the best assets to match for periodical payment orders (PPOs) liabilities

  • PRA ignores insurers on matching adjustment rules

    30 June 2014

    Sets out conditions for repackaging assets and invites firms to engage in trial application

  • US insurers favour alternatives in outsourcing asset management

    26 June 2014

    US insurers reduce use of third-party managers for core fixed income, increase for alternative investments

  • DGFs aim at equity-like returns while reducing downside

    24 June 2014

    Diversified growth funds could be attractive to protect against an equity market correction

  • UK insurers' Q1 net investment rises

    23 June 2014

    ONS data shows greater allocation to short-term assets

  • Specialist investment services in demand from insurers

    12 June 2014

    Russell Büsst, Conning's CIO Europe, discusses US muni bonds and trade finance

  • Coping with the inflation conundrum

    10 June 2014

    The development of inflation or disinflation in different markets is a critical driver of corporate performance, rather than simply a tactical investment issue, as the case of P&C insurers shows. Etienne Comon explains

  • With changing market dynamics, insurers can profit in fixed income

    07 May 2014

    They buy in bulk, their size gives them clout with large fixed-income asset managers and their buy-and-hold outlook insulates them from market swings, as Douglas Niemann explains

  • Annuity changes put corporate bonds under pressure

    23 April 2014

    Revisions to the UK's legislation around annuities is causing insurers to rethink investment strategies. Hardeep Dhillon examines the impact on sterling capital markets and demand for assets

  • Diversification and caution characterise insurers' 2014 asset strategies

    05 March 2014

    Another year of weak yields from bonds is prompting some insurers to continue diversifying their investment portfolios. But with predictions of weaker equity markets and continuing low interest rates, others are battening down the hatches. Jamie Bullen and Christopher Cundy report