Archive

  • Brit hires Masa Kitade for Asia in ILS push

    14 February 2022

    Will lead business expansion in Japan and Asia generally

  • Goldman Sachs and Aon give captive insurers a helping hand

    13 October 2020

    New service combines reporting, execution and advisory

  • US Outlook 2020: an encore for investors

    15 January 2020

    Many had bet on the market staging a final whimper last year before recession. But the talk of a global downturn suddenly vanished in the last few months of 2019. Now investors are looking at the market with rosy spectacles and hoping for more rewards in 2020. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • L&G announces £1.6bn buy-in with National Grid UK Pension Scheme

    26 November 2019

    Deal won on the back of asset management mandate

  • To outsource the CIO, or not?

    29 October 2019

    While outsourced CIOs have been predominantly used in the pension space up until now, small US insurers are increasingly seeing the benefits of such a move. But insurers' needs differ widely from those of pension funds, and service providers will need to prove their worth to win mandates. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Insurers get defensive in the face of Brexit fears

    29 August 2019

    In the three years since the UK voted to leave the European Union, the emotional pendulum has swung from hope to despair – regardless of where one stands on the issue – making fertile ground for comments. But what do the numbers say when looking at insurers' asset allocation in the years since the referendum? Vincent Huck reports.

  • Diversification and China: the keywords for the coming years

    03 July 2019

    IAR Webinar hears from Aon’s senior analyst Lucinda Downing on the key risks facing investors

  • IAR webinar: Investment strategy implementation, the CIO’s point of view

    03 July 2019

    PZU investment chief Robert Kubin describes the practicalities of implementing investment strategies

  • Did you say impact?

    05 February 2019

    Every investment has an impact, so what is meant by ‘impact investing’ and how can one measure the impact of an investment. Vincent Huck reports on a new measurement framework launched by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

  • Unrealised losses on bonds restrict reinsurance sector’s overall return

    11 January 2019

    Investment yield appears to have bottomed-out and showed a small uptick to 2.7% in the first nine months of 2018, according to Aon reinsurance outlook