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

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

Insurers' unique position in the finances of climate risk

CIOs should look beyond their actuarial colleagues' climate models and to the overall underwriting sector's pricing trend, new report argues

Institutional investors double ETF use in last five years

Cerulli and Invesco report finds 45% of ETF users plan to increase allocations over next 24 months

Oil shocks and policy fog: Insurance investors face a market that won't behave

Insurance investors are balancing geopolitical uncertainty, inflation pressure and a market that appears increasingly disconnected from reality

War, oil and uncertainty keep the Fed in limbo, Conning says

Crisis in Strait of Hormuz prompts Aviva Investors to downgrade forecasts for year

Cuts 2026 growth outlook and raises inflation expectations amid rising uncertainty

Highly predictable cashflow assets - still waiting for the goldrush?

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

Insurers still hungry for private assets, Goldman Sachs Survey finds

Goldman Sachs' 15th annual global insurance survey finds an industry that is increasingly targeting private credit, private equity, and infrastructure

Real Estate giving back allocation to other asset classes, insurers say

Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's Investing in Private Markets conference unenthusiastic about data centres

European insurers to increase illiquid and private markets assets, Moody's predicts

Ratings agency also says fixed income quality gains have likely peaked