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  • Hiscox allocates a quarter of assets to cash

    30 July 2018

    London-listed insurer plans for rising interest rates and market volatility

  • Allianz's CIO talks: "I didn't come here to radically change things."

    15 June 2018

    Like Germany's national football team, Allianz is one of the most well-structured and led companies in the world. Come the final shake-up you know it will be there or thereabouts. In a two-part series Allianz's CIO, Carsten Quitter, speaks to Insurance Asset Risk some three years after his predecessor Andres Gruber told of his challenges. By Sarfraz Thind

  • Insurers give ECB bond decision qualified support

    14 June 2018

    Industry holds €2.1tr in sovereigns

  • Private markets: end of the credit cycle, start of a new era?

    04 June 2018

    Insurers have increasingly invested in private assets in recent years to counter the low yield environment. But as we enter the later stages of the credit cycle, questions are being raised on whether private assets were tactical short-term choices, or if insurers have fully embraced these asset classes. Vincent Huck reports

  • A fight to the death - Talanx executive bemoans no-yield environment

    27 November 2017

    Insurer is fighting Mario Draghi to offset effects of nil-yield assets

  • Bund yields vulnerable as QE draws to a close

    19 April 2017

    The end of the ECB's €2trn QE programme will lead to a rebalancing of the European fixed income market, with the repricing of German debt likely to be significant

  • Why bond market liquidity is back on the worry list

    28 September 2016

    JP Morgan Asset Management's Prashant Sharma and Bryan Wallace on why insurance investors must accept structurally lower liquidity in bond markets, and how they can navigate the new asset landscape.

  • Bank of England to put the squeeze on UK insurers

    03 August 2016

    Monetary easing may include fresh round of asset purchases. Hugo Coelho reports

  • Tail risk increased since Brexit vote, says Zurich's Miller

    30 June 2016

    Further equity falls expected in coming weeks

  • Can covered bonds stage a comeback?

    29 June 2016

    Covered bonds have traditionally been a favourite asset for insurers and are treated sympathetically under Solvency II, but they have fallen from grace as low yields bite into the asset class. Sarfraz Thind reports on prospects for a revival