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  • Creating a regulatory and policy environment that supports long-term insurance, part II

    20 June 2019

    At Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2019 conference UK and European insurers discuss as part of a panel the pressing regulatory issues challenging their investment. In the second part of this two-part series, they discuss the MA and transition from Libor. Compiled by David Walker

  • Creating a regulatory and policy environment that supports long-term insurance

    14 June 2019

    At Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2019 conference UK and European insurers discuss the pressing regulatory issues challenging their investments. Compiled by David Walker

  • Insurers desperately look, without success, to regulators for Libor answers

    14 June 2019

    Insurers lamented lack of help from regulators to switch from Libor, at IAR 2019 European conference

  • Addressing the influence of credit rating agencies

    04 June 2019

    Erik Vynckier, Foresters Friendly Society, will speak at Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2019

  • European insurers vent anger over Brexit in SFCRs

    23 April 2019

    From Austria to Gibraltar underwriters are trying to keep calm and carry on

  • UK with-profit funds record average returns of 6.22% in 2017

    24 October 2018

    According to a survey of 52 funds across 20 insurers

  • Regulation redefines relations between insurers and asset managers

    27 September 2018

    In the second part of Insurance Asset Risk's insurer-asset manager survey we examine how Solvency II has shifted the dynamic for insurance asset managers. Insurers are not always getting the tailor-made solutions, research and expertise they ask for. By Sarfraz Thind

  • Insurers and asset managers: a relationship in turmoil

    13 September 2018

    The relationship between insurers and their asset manager is evolving, shifted by macroeconomic changes, regulations, fee pressures and new asset dynamics. Insurers say they want more from their asset managers. But more of what precisely? And how are managers responding? IAR asks the industry. By Sarfraz Thind

  • Illiquid credits tops insurers' asset class diversification plans

    05 July 2018

    The audience of the Insurance Asset Risk EMEA conference answered a series of questions on their main concerns and investment strategies going forward. Vincent Huck reports on the findings

  • Foresters Friendly ready to dump sterling assets to tackle Brexit

    09 May 2018

    Corrado Pistarino, chief investment officer at Foresters Friendly, outlines his firm's risk management strategy if things deteriorate with Brexit and what asset managers need to do in order to win mandates from insurance clients. By Cintia Cheong