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  • IAR's global outlook survey 2021: a foggy crystal ball

    01 February 2021

    Respondents to Insurance Asset Risk's outlook survey seem more at the mercy of the financial gods than ever before. Most agree that while the pandemic rages, 2021 will be a damn hard year to predict. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Assessing climate associated asset risk

    30 October 2020

    Panel sponsored by Royal London Asset Management

  • ABI's Hugh Savill predicts Brexit 'papal schism' for Solvency II

    20 October 2020

    The UK exit from the EU could lead to a rift in insurance regulation akin to the papal schism of the 1300s, delegates at the Insurance Asset Risk 2020 EMEA conference have heard. Vincent Huck reports

  • A 2°C pathway scenario - a blurry concept investment-wise

    20 October 2020

    IAR 2020 EMEA: delegates hear about the limitations faced by insurers in integrating climate risk into their investments

  • Sustainable investing: how to implement what still needs to be defined?

    02 September 2020

    Lack of data and commonly agreed definitions are the main challenges for insurers in implementing their sustainable investment policies, chief investments officers tell Vincent Huck.

  • Suspension of dividend payments, more firepower for the investment teams?

    09 April 2020

    As some insurers follow suit on regulators' urge not to pay dividends and others refuse to comply, Vincent Huck looks at whether dividend retention could result in more ammunition for the investment teams to invest in markets

  • IAR SURVEY: Insurers unprepared for COVID-19's market turbulence

    06 April 2020

    Insurance Asset Risk surveyed the industry to find out how it is rethinking asset allocation in the wake of COVID-19's impact on the economy and financial markets. Vincent Huck presents the results

  • Finding the rewards in low interest rates

    19 February 2020

    Foresters Friendly Society's chief investment officer Corrado Pistarino explains why he believes it's a fallacy to think low interest rates constitute "unrewarded risk". Interview by Vincent Huck

  • New investment risks or new assessment of risk?

    10 December 2019

    Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's sister publication InsuranceERM's conference discuss the new types of risks they are exposed to and whether they understand those risks well. Highlights compiled by Stephanie Harris

  • Foresters Friendly Society awards £175m mandate to Axa IM

    05 July 2019

    Multi-asset mandate will invest 80% in traditional assets and 20% in alternatives