Archive

• 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

• 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

• Beazley Furlonge syndicate praises its best returns as funds and shareholdings grow

  04 April 2025

  Hedge funds, credit and equities all played role in 5.1% rate of return in 2024

• 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

• Lloyd's syndicates keep careful watch on Donald Trump's tariff wars

  02 April 2025

  Syndicates voiced caution about change of US presidency in latest annual reports

• Core competency - Lloyd's syndicates go outsourcing, and not just for peripheral assets

  08 May 2024

  Lloyd's syndicates hire external help for the core of their general accounts, even if delegating makes more headlines when non-mainstream assets are involved

• 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

• 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

• "Bonds are back" - Goldilocks appears for Lloyd's syndicates' fixed income holdings

  18 April 2024

  Not a big bad bear was in sight when syndicates published annual reports in March, but many warned of elevated geopolitical instability risks

• Chart of the Week - Do PE-linked Lloyd's syndicates take more investment risk?

  12 April 2024

  With PE links to insurers in the sights of regulators worldwide, we investigate the fair value hierarchy of some at Lloyd's