Archive

  • Lloyd's syndicates ventured 'beyond the core' in 2024

    01 May 2025

    For 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

  • Insurers have all they need for £100bn UK productive assets commitment, PRA says

    01 May 2025

    Gareth Truran explains regulator's efforts to speed up MA approvals and reasoning for investment accelerator two-year timescale

  • PRA warns of concentration risk and liquidity risks in BPA market

    30 April 2025

    Regulator will continue to keep an eye on funded reinsurance and will consider possibility of "further action"

  • Infrastructure is Manulife IM's favoured alternative investment amid uncertainty

    29 April 2025

    While real estate is seen as not an "overly compelling" opportunity at the moment

  • APAC Weekly - India's lifers fire on all cylinders, much like India's young cricket star this week

    29 April 2025

    New Delhi wants national full coverage by 2047. The signs, so far, are good

  • Be prudent with private allocations amid market turbulence, AB says

    28 April 2025

    Asset manager advises that insurers view opportunity set as both public and private exposures - not either/or

  • CIO interview: In praise of the grey hairs

    24 April 2025

    In the second of this two part interview, Jelle van der Giessen reflects on his 10 year tenure as a CIO, what evolved and why the divorce between insurers and in-house asset managers needs to happen.

  • Helvetia and Baloise to form insurer with CHF 139.05 balance sheet assets

    23 April 2025

    Merged firm would have an estimated SST ratio of more than 240% as of 1 January 2025

  • RE debt investors watchword for 2025?: 'Uncertainty'

    21 April 2025

    Audience at Insurance Asset Risk's Investing in Real Assets Conference 2025 in London hears that tentative RE rebound has stalled - thanks to geopolitics

  • Canada Life Reinsurance appoints new CIO

    17 April 2025

    Peter McGloughlin promoted from role as head of asset intensive reinsurance at the firm