Archive

  • Zurich favours US equities over credit despite investor complacency across both asset classes

    12 April 2024

    Market rate cut expectations closer to reality than last year, but cracks beginning to form in the "perfect picture" landing scenario

  • Private debt at the forefront of insurers' continued advance into private markets

    10 April 2024

    According to global insurance survey by Mercer and Oliver Wyman

  • CIO Interview: managing Europe's third largest general account

    08 April 2024

    Generali group CIO Francesco Martorana discusses the Italian giant's investment strategy and reveals some of its most exotic investments, including blockchain

  • Private credit beats PE for insurers' appetite for the first time in GSAM survey

    02 April 2024

    Goldman Sachs AM's latest annual insurance survey also reveals insurers' highest appetite for duration risk since the survey first ran 13 years ago

  • News roundup: Insurance asset management

    02 April 2024

    Covering the latest deals and people moves at AllianzGI, abrdn, AB, Société Générale and Impax

  • Tokio Marine affiliated manager foresees 10-year JGB yields at 1.5%

    26 March 2024

    TMAM expects "at least one" more interest rate hike in 2024

  • Chart of the Week: Japan's affiliates welcome arrival of novel concept - inflation

    22 March 2024

    Insurers' asset managers were expecting the BOJ's rates policy to change, as prices keep rising, sustainably

  • The world is a Japanese oyster at Prudential Financial international insurance

    20 March 2024

    Sara Bonesteel, chief investment officer for international insurance at the US headquartered insurers, discusses the investment set up and outlook for the year ahead

  • Institutional investors see opportunity in market volatility

    15 March 2024

    Survey from Aeon Investments sees 81% of respondents saying they expect an increase in opportunities to add value over the next two years

  • Chart of the Week: Why Rome should relax its 5% cap on loans and mortgage exposures for insurers

    15 March 2024

    Researcher Agostino Tripodi finds some sub-optimal GA allocation going on, in shadow of local-law limits on L&M holdings