Archive

  • Chart of the Week - Why the news is not all bad for Californian insurer State Farm GI

    14 February 2025

    Amid hefty natcat bills in past years, and worse probably yet to come from LA, State Farm's CIO has helped steady the ship

  • Private credit not systemic risk, Fitch says, but needs close monitoring

    13 February 2025

    As insurers continue to increase allocations to private asset classes

  • Comment - Chinese insurers find good luck, or good planning, in regulator's move on gold

    13 February 2025

    NFRA has begun letting 10 large underwriters make some bullion-related investments

  • IAG lets alts and shares slide well below target range, to 22% of shareholders' funds

    13 February 2025

    Australasian non-lifer foresees no near-term return to previous target range of 40% to 50%

  • Suncorp's 'manager alpha' declined again, modestly, by December

    13 February 2025

    Australasian non-lifer's impact investing allocation is now above plan

  • Tariff turmoil challenges insurers and managers

    12 February 2025

    Policy uncertainty "the most difficult" aspect of 2025

  • Poor performance in Q4 2024 bucked trend for US institutional investors' returns, Northern Trust says

    12 February 2025

    US equity markets outperformed international equity markets and global fixed income markets in 2024

  • US insurers' investment conviction wanes in 2025, Conning risk survey finds

    11 February 2025

    Despite market becoming more comfortable with private assets and liquidity risk, Matt Reilly, managing director and head of insurance solutions at Conning, told Insurance Asset Risk

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's lifers discover new life business overseas

    11 February 2025

    In adding its name to Japanese insurers doing foreign M&A, Meiji Yasuda Life might also be adding LGIM to its list of outsourcing managers

  • Chart of the Week - In Generali's and BPCE's JV, 'affiliated AM giants' roar to life

    07 February 2025

    BPCE's and Generali's recent tie-up has created a new breed of insurance AM - the 'affiliated juggernaut'