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SFCR 2025 - French insurers win out from buying into alternatives in 2024
22 May 2025Non-mainstream classes now make up to one-quarter of investment returns, some firms say
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Chubb appoints new chief investment officer
20 May 2025As part of investment team shake-up
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Lloyd's syndicates ventured 'beyond the core' in 2024
01 May 2025For 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
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Insurers are picking up banks' fossil fuel financing slack
16 December 2024Rainforest Action Network says there is a "shocking lack of transparency about what insurers are underwriting and investing in"
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Chart of the Week - Outsourcing by Bermudian re/insurers
16 August 2024Bermuda re/insurers seek a lot of expert help from independent asset managers
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APAC Weekly - China debt plan launches suggest no end in sight to insurers' thirst for infra
06 August 2024Almost 200 infrastructure debt and equity plans have been launched by Chinese insurance asset managers so far this year
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APAC Weekly - Singapore's CIOs are nothing if not eclectic
16 July 2024Recent results show a community of CIOs spanning the allocation spectrum from weighty-alts to core-fixed-income
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Chubb Life appoints Hong Kong CIO
08 May 2024Ben Rudd joins from Prudential Wealth Management
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Core competency - Lloyd's syndicates go outsourcing, and not just for peripheral assets
08 May 2024Lloyd's syndicates hire external help for the core of their general accounts, even if delegating makes more headlines when non-mainstream assets are involved
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CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'
02 May 2024In 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