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SFCR 2025 - French insurers win out from buying into alternatives in 2024
22 May 2025Non-mainstream classes now make up to one-quarter of investment returns, some firms say
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The Trump administration as a Netflix drama: What happens in the next season?
19 May 2025Let'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?
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'Beyond bonds' - Lloyd's syndicates' taste for 'variable return' assets
15 May 2025Fixed income is not set in stone for Lloyd's syndicates' CIOs, who are also investigating more esoteric assets
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Having a word with Phoenix Group CIO, Mike Eakins
14 May 2025Michael Eakins gives funky interview to Insurance Asset Risk after receiving his second CIO of the year award
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SFCRs 2025 - German lifers as Europe's hard-core 'non-core' investors
08 May 2025Even after sleepy Bund yields staged a comeback, German life CIOs remain alive to rewards of alternative investments, their SFCRs show
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Secret Japanese CIO: Three key issues on my mind
07 May 2025As 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.
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Lloyd's syndicates ventured 'beyond the core' in 2024
01 May 2025For 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
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ESG in real assets - still fit for the future?
30 April 2025Panellists 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
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When Lloyd's syndicates go investing, past patterns may not reflect future plans
23 April 2025If the image of Lloyd's syndicates conjures up 'uniformly conservative' investors, then key outsourcing partners to the market tell David Walker, a 'rethink' may be in order
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RE debt investors watchword for 2025?: 'Uncertainty'
21 April 2025Audience at Insurance Asset Risk's Investing in Real Assets Conference 2025 in London hears that tentative RE rebound has stalled - thanks to geopolitics