Archive

  • SFCR season: The UK matching adjustment's heavyweights and their investment portfolios

    30 April 2026

    Last year capped off a successful opening decade for the matching adjustment, helping its UK users save a whopping £720.6bn worth of regulatory capital. David Walker examines how they did it

  • German insurers welcome seismic pension reform - with caveats

    27 April 2026

    Germany's Riester Rente system was certainly in need of change, but practitioners aren't wholly convinced what's coming quite fits the bill...

  • APAC Weekly - Australia's annuity writer(s) wins out in capital framework re-set

    07 April 2026

    Apollo-backed Challenger argued for some significantly different capital framework settings, to those its industry will get, come July

  • Data centres: The darlings of discussions but not yet of allocation

    02 April 2026

    Insurers' enthusiasm for the sector is tempered by doubts over concentration risk, obsolescence, exits and even whether the assets belong in real estate at all

  • Highly predictable cashflow assets - still waiting for the goldrush?

    30 March 2026

    The Solvency UK reforms allowing insurers to invest up to 10% of their MA portfolios in 'highly predictable' cashflow assets launched in June 2024, but its positive impact was not immediately clear

  • Insurance Asset Risk's investing in private markets 2026 round-up

    25 February 2026

    Highlights from the day's discussions

  • NAIC to be "laser focused" on insurer's changing appetites for private and alternative assets

    23 February 2026

    New NAIC president Scott A. White has set out his plans for the year in a series of recent interviews

  • How to stress-test €600bn worth of private markets assets

    18 February 2026

    As Europe's regulators mull what stressors are best to test a private markets portfolio, managers have some thoughts...

  • Outsourcing RT series: Part IV, The future for outsourcing

    15 January 2026

    Insurers give an insight into the primary ways they expect the practice of outsourcing, and the nature of relationships of manager to CIO will change

  • Can you measure productive finance?

    07 January 2026

    L&G discusses its recent £2bn commitment to invest in UK productive assets by 2030, and the important role of 'vision' in local government