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• Comment: Wise words for Lloyd's syndicates considering 'new pastures'

  14 May 2025

  Insurance Asset Risk asked expert managers for their top advice to syndicates buying new asset classes

• Dai-Ichi to raise stake in Capula hedge fund to 15%

  12 May 2025

  Further sign of asset management-insurer coupling

• 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

• Lloyd's syndicate makes 36% on hedge fund, and 27% from gold, in 2024

  04 April 2025

  MAP also added, profitably, to gold and commodity ETFs

• Lloyd's syndicates welcome elevated yields, despite some softening from 2023

  03 April 2025

  But healthy yields come in landscape of heightened risk, syndicates warn

• Investors foretell 'the decade for fixed income', according to MPG research

  15 October 2024

  91% of survey respondents predict stormy outlook for equity markets over the next 18 months

• Investors missed fixed income boat, research finds

  26 September 2024

  Research from MPG finds 99% of respondents believe they failed to get ahead of Fed rate cut, and half predict up to $2.5trn will leave US money markets in next couple of years

• CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'

  02 May 2024

  In severe 'Nat Cat years' before 2023, CIOs at Lloyd's acted as 'cash registers', disgorging cash to meet steep property claims. Last year, a 'break in the weather' let them 'take stock', and many seized that 'down-time' to progress climate-investing with managers and funds

• MAP holds firm on bullion ETFs, enjoys "small pat on the back" for avoiding tech stocks

  05 April 2023

  Managing agency suffered its first back-to-back investment losses in 2021/2022

• Comment: What's in a name? How investors are a 'proxy-SCR' for insurers' reputation risk

  27 March 2023

  Reputations contain much value quickly lost, especially in the financial sector reliant on trust