Archive

  • BPA market steamrolls through 2024, but where's the drama?

    06 January 2025

    UK 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?

  • Trumponomics will dominate 2025, Generali Investments says

    02 January 2025

    Rising concerns about sovereign debt sustainability

  • Sustainable and impact mandates to make up half of UK insurers private market portfolios

    26 December 2024

    In two years' time, L&G research says, up to 47% from 35% at present

  • European insurers shifting away from illiquids, S&P says

    25 December 2024

    Auditors' view allays agency's fears from last year, with S&P saying insurers shifting to "plain vanilla" assets

  • How is time changing insurers appetite for private assets?

    25 December 2024

    Matthew 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.

  • Exploring the demand in affordable housing

    23 December 2024

    Mike 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

  • Moody's downgrade of France, the more things change the more they stay the same

    18 December 2024

    Insurers and their asset managers react to the ramifications of the rating change going forward

  • DB pension schemes finding it more difficult to attract insurer attention, Standard Life survey finds

    18 December 2024

    Market volatility named as key barrier to schemes' endgame strategies

  • APAC Weekly - 'Rebalancing risk' of homeowners and insurers, in an era of climate change

    17 December 2024

    During 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.

  • Diversification of asset classes to continue in 2025, PGIM CEO says

    13 December 2024

    Idiosyncratic risk becoming greater concern to CIOs than business cycle risk