Archive

• Is the future of equities in the Old World?

  21 May 2025

  The US has been the king of equities for a long time - but recent policy has made that crown unsteady. Is Europe about to accede?

• The Trump administration as a Netflix drama: What happens in the next season?

  19 May 2025

  Let's imagine the dying down of the tariff furore marks the end of the latest series, will tax-cuts and deregulation finally appear to offer insurers some light relief?

• 'Beyond bonds' - Lloyd's syndicates' taste for 'variable return' assets

  15 May 2025

  Fixed income is not set in stone for Lloyd's syndicates' CIOs, who are also investigating more esoteric assets

• Having a word with Phoenix Group CIO, Mike Eakins

  14 May 2025

  Michael Eakins gives funky interview to Insurance Asset Risk after receiving his second CIO of the year award

• Return of public market assets? Or does private still hold sway?

  12 May 2025

  Delegates at Insurance Asset Risk's Real Assets conference 2025 in London heard panellists discuss the complex interplay and relative benefits of public and private assets in portfolio construction amidst the current global backdrop

• SFCRs 2025 - German lifers as Europe's hard-core 'non-core' investors

  08 May 2025

  Even after sleepy Bund yields staged a comeback, German life CIOs remain alive to rewards of alternative investments, their SFCRs show

• Secret Japanese CIO: Three key issues on my mind

  07 May 2025

  As per the regulation, as of 1 April this year, Japan has a new Solvency II-type regulatory regime which is the Insurance Capital Standard developed by International Association of Insurance Supervisors.

• Solvency UK and the matching adjustment in three easy pieces

  05 May 2025

  At our recent Investing in Real Assets Conference, we brought together David Otudeko of the ABI and Michael Henderson of Legal & General to discuss the future of Solvency UK

• Lloyd's syndicates ventured 'beyond the core' in 2024

  01 May 2025

  For most syndicates, 'core fixed income' was the anchor for their portfolios - but that did not prevent some from charting more distant waters with their general accounts in 2024

• ESG in real assets - still fit for the future?

  30 April 2025

  Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's Investing in Real Assets Conference 2025 in London last month discussed navigating sustainability in indirect investments and the shifting language of ESG investments