Archive

• The Trump administration as a Netflix drama: What happens in the next season?

  19 May 2025

  Let'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?

• 'Beyond bonds' - Lloyd's syndicates' taste for 'variable return' assets

  15 May 2025

  Fixed income is not set in stone for Lloyd's syndicates' CIOs, who are also investigating more esoteric assets

• Having a word with Phoenix Group CIO, Mike Eakins

  14 May 2025

  Michael Eakins gives funky interview to Insurance Asset Risk after receiving his second CIO of the year award

• Secret Japanese CIO: Three key issues on my mind

  07 May 2025

  As 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• Japanese lifers looking for a beacon in the equity markets storm

  16 April 2025

  With trade wars sending markets haywire, and equities being the highest risk in insurers' investment portfolios, investment and risk teams are holding firm, in the hope of a window of blue sky

• Downturn will reveal who has been swimming naked in private markets, CIO of Convex says

  14 April 2025

  David Dowsett, chief investment officer at Convex Insurance, sat down with Insurance Asset Risk, in a week that saw a market meltdown induced by President Trump's short-lived plan for global tariffs.

• CIO Interview: From oil driller to sustainable chief investment officer

  10 April 2025

  Retiring NN chief investment officer Jelle van der Giessen reflects on his 30-year career