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  • The other 'hiking' - Lloyd's syndicate CIOs trek further 'off the beaten path' for alternatives

    25 April 2024

    Yields on core fixed income may have improved with rate hikes of recent years, but some Lloyd's syndicate CIOs have ventured further from the well-trod path, searching for alternatives, as David Walker discovers

  • What lurks below - Lloyd's syndicates shine a light on 'level 3' illiquid holdings

    11 April 2024

    While liquid bonds dominate syndicates' general accounts, liquidity analysis reveals there is more to investment portfolios at Lloyd's

  • IAR Americas: Fitch downgrade has embedded some credit risk

    26 September 2023

    Private markets still of value

  • AXA XL appoints CFO for Canada

    02 February 2023

    Promoting senior finance manager Patrick Lee to the role

  • Axa XL reinsurance appoints CFO

    29 December 2022

    Claudia Ingenhoven to take the role in February

  • Beware the unintended consequences of good intent

    30 November 2022

    Panellists at Insurance Risk and Capital 2022 conference Bermuda have warned of the complexity of integrating climate change considerations in their business and the difficulty to communicate on those externally. Vincent Huck reports.

  • Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2022 conference round up

    28 September 2022

    The conference was held in New York on 27 September and highlighted the pain ahead for insurance investors. Vincent Huck reports

  • How insurers think of esoteric opportunities - and the AMs offering them

    28 September 2022

    Panelists at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2022 conference

  • IAR Americas: Cautious optimism in credit markets

    27 October 2021

    Since the health crisis of COVID-19 snowballed into an economic crisis, credit markets have seen their base shaken, but insurers retain some confidence, not without caution though. Vincent Huck reports

  • IAR Americas: Stress testing essential against potential interest rate rise

    22 September 2021

    Avoiding zombie companies also a key defence in current environment