Archive

  • Bitcoin: blowing bubbles or truly sticky?

    18 January 2021

    Bitcoin is steaming into the stratosphere—and many want in. But is this speculative bubble going to appeal to insurers? Sarfraz Thind finds out.

  • Democrat blue-ripple will lead to investment recalibration

    11 January 2021

    But balanced Senate outcome tempers prospect of radical policy overhaul

  • US insurers warmly welcome outsourced managers for climate change investing

    06 January 2021

    US insurers are buying ever more services from asset managers, data vendors and research houses to help understand climate change and inform their investment decisions, David Walker discovers.

  • US insurers follow in Europe's climate footsteps

    01 January 2021

    Scenario analysis is the primary tool for quantifying climate risks

  • Conning launches climate risk reporting service

    12 November 2020

    Offering profiles insurers' investment portfolios exposure to climate risk

  • Investment leaders panel on key risks and strategic portfolio positioning

    30 October 2020

    Panel sponsored by Conning Asset Management

  • Breadth of investment outsourcing in UK revealed

    28 October 2020

    UK insurers use more than 100 different investment managers

  • IAR Americas: Rates unlikely to go negative in the USA but be prepared in case!

    22 September 2020

    Panellists warn portfolios should be position for either increase or drop in interest rates

  • USA insurers search for the golden age of credit

    07 September 2020

    For the harried insurer, dealing with a projected lifetime of low interest rates, is there any value left in the corporate bond market? Some believe there is, and particularly so in that much-derided BBB segment. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Conning, Schroders and BlueBay among managers helping Lloyd's syndicates profit in 2019

    07 September 2020

    Analysis reveals where insuring made losses, but syndicates still posted profits