Archive

• 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

• The evolution of real estate and real assets investment by insurers

  22 October 2018

  Low yields, compressed spreads, relative pricing advantage and regulatory incentives are key factors auguring an exponential growth of the real estate market in the coming years, Gerard-Jan van Berckel writes.

• Prince of Wales says insurers need to step up on sustainability

  11 July 2018

  Events organised by the Prince of Wales can't be publicised, so it was a running joke among the attendees of his finance leaders' summit at St James Palace to ask how one had heard about the event. Surrounded by tapestries, art works, swords and powder guns hanging from the walls, 70 finance leaders were asked to commit to concrete actions to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. Vincent Huck got a glimpse through the door.

• Aon commits to the UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance

  05 June 2018

  It is the first insurance broker to sign up to the principles

• Tech firm promises low-cost, flexible economic scenario generator

  08 August 2017

  Financial Canvas takes on established players with claims of faster recalibration