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Old dog, new(ish) tricks? Lloyd's CIOs get all esoteric
05 April 2023Lloyd's syndicates have held onto non-mainstream investments even as yields have risen - with some mixed results, David Walker finds
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Lloyd's of London playing the oldest trick in the book
03 April 2023The insurance market's first CIO, Eleanor Bucks, describes her responsibilities and the 'why' and 'how' of the first fund in its newly-formed investment platform. Interview by Vincent Huck
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IAR investing in real assets conference 2023 roundup
28 March 2023Panellists discuss the secular macro and geopolitical trends affecting their investment decisions in real assets
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Insurers caught up in the Swiss bad apple
22 March 2023The bad news seeping out of the US in the wake of SVB was magnified this month by the fall of Credit Suisse. The damage to insurers' portfolios to this once august banking institution is for now not too bad. Could there be worse to come? Sarfraz Thind reports
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The return to the promised land
20 March 2023After a decade of eking out pitiful returns on their traditional fixed income assets insurers are finally seeing the return of higher interest rates. Will this herald a shift out of risky assets? A recent publication by the NAIC outlines the possibilities. Sarfraz Thind reports
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Global Atlantic's CIO talks shop
15 March 2023Anup Agarwal, CIO, explains why Global Atlantic does not support US insurance regulators proposed changes on structured assets' capital charges calibrations. Interview by Sarfraz Thind
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Springing back to life - JGB yields help Japan's CIOs repatriate GAs
01 March 2023It's been an awfully long time coming, but yields on long-dated JGBs are becoming genuinely attractive to many Japanese CIOs - maybe for the first time in their careers, David Walker reports
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Comment: NAIC's CLO Model - A communal path to policy design
22 February 2023By Amnon Levy and Brett Manning
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Having fun with private equity investments
30 January 2023A small French mutual insurer tells Insurance Asset Risk how it has become one of the few insurers to make the most of the long-term equity rule in Solvency II... and how it had fun in the process. Vincent Huck reports
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Zurich's surprisingly optimistic 2023 outlook after dire year
11 January 2023Guy Miller, chief market strategist at Zurich, discuss the insurer's 2023 outlook as the WEF publishes its annual global risk report. Interview by Vincent Huck