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• 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 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

• APAC insurance groups reveal better investment outcomes for Bermudian subsidiaries

  05 August 2024

  From outsourcing to equity beta data to income leaps, APAC-owned Bermudians reported on an investment job well done, in 2023

• Curious and curiouser - the quirky and weird risks, that Lloyd's syndicate CIOs are backing

  15 May 2024

  Got a satellite, a nuclear reactor, a Degas, or a body part to insure? A Lloyd's syndicate will do that - and back the risk in its GA. David Walker peers inside Lloyd's cabinet of insured curiosities

• 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

• "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

• Chaucer appoints Simon Tighe as group head of ESG

  16 May 2023

  Previously worked on the firm's ESG Balanced Scorecard

• Old dog, new(ish) tricks? Lloyd's CIOs get all esoteric

  05 April 2023

  Lloyd's syndicates have held onto non-mainstream investments even as yields have risen - with some mixed results, David Walker finds

• Heading for a fall? Sovereign CDS prices, and investor nerves, leap

  06 January 2023

  In the past year, investors' concerns about sovereigns defaulting have, on average, doubled - or so say CDS prices