Archive

• Recession is coming, and it could spark credit appetite

  12 November 2018

  Panellists at upcoming Insurance Risk & Capital EMEA conference warn

• Investment Association board now more than one-third female

  20 September 2018

  CEOs of Brooks Macdonald, Columbia Threadneedle, and Newton to join board at investment manager trade body

• Bridging language barriers between insurers and external asset managers

  26 June 2018

  IAR EMEA conference: panel explores insurer/manager relationship

• Phoenix Group appoints two senior SLA executives to its board

  25 June 2018

  While SLA continues to restructure board following Standard Life and Aberdeen merger

• Why it's time for insurers to embrace ESG investing

  A growing body of evidence suggests that ESG investing fosters better investment decisions, performance and risk management. While insurers lag other institutional investors in embracing ESG investing, momentum is building and things look set to change.

• Aviva Investors' head of sterling joins Columbia Threadneedle

  29 September 2016

  Asset manager seeks insurance expertise

• Getting the measure of credit downgrade risk

  21 September 2016

  Investors are questioning the impact of credit downgrades on insurers' Solvency II balance sheets. Hugo Coelho investigates how firms are gauging this risk and why they resist putting a figure on it.

• P&C insurers first to feel the pinch of negative yielding gilts

  11 August 2016

  Life insurers to hold on to long-dated bonds, despite BoE demand

• Columbia Threadneedle hires head of insurance solutions from Pimco

  10 June 2016

  Eugene Dimitriou to structure investment solutions for insurance clients

• LV= spices up traditional investments with commercial mortgages

  11 June 2015

  The vast bulk of LV='s assets are managed externally and produce solid returns but, as it looks for extra yield, the UK's largest friendly society is building up its commercial mortgage investments. Mike Leonard, investment solutions manager, talks to IAR