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BPA market steamrolls through 2024, but where's the drama?
06 January 2025UK PRT market volume is expected to settle around the £45bn mark, L&G's latest Endgame report suggests, but are pension schemes finding it increasingly difficult to catch insurer's eyes?
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Trumponomics will dominate 2025, Generali Investments says
02 January 2025Rising concerns about sovereign debt sustainability
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Sustainable and impact mandates to make up half of UK insurers private market portfolios
26 December 2024In two years' time, L&G research says, up to 47% from 35% at present
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European insurers shifting away from illiquids, S&P says
25 December 2024Auditors' view allays agency's fears from last year, with S&P saying insurers shifting to "plain vanilla" assets
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How is time changing insurers appetite for private assets?
25 December 2024Matthew Bass, head of private alternatives at AllianceBernstein (AB), discusses with Insurance Asset Risk the trends in the private asset space, insurer's changing tastes and his predictions for 2025.
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Exploring the demand in affordable housing
23 December 2024Mike Lohmeier, chief investment officer at IMPACT Community Capital, explains the current state of play in affordable housing investments in the US, and compares it to other real estate asset classes
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Moody's downgrade of France, the more things change the more they stay the same
18 December 2024Insurers and their asset managers react to the ramifications of the rating change going forward
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DB pension schemes finding it more difficult to attract insurer attention, Standard Life survey finds
18 December 2024Market volatility named as key barrier to schemes' endgame strategies
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APAC Weekly - 'Rebalancing risk' of homeowners and insurers, in an era of climate change
17 December 2024During research into the growing problems of affordability and availability of home insurance in Australia, academics Julia Plass and Jens Zinn uncovered, and addressed, a notable asymmetry in 'who knows what' when it comes to climate-related risks.
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Diversification of asset classes to continue in 2025, PGIM CEO says
13 December 2024Idiosyncratic risk becoming greater concern to CIOs than business cycle risk