Archive

  • 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

  • Hiscox's investment return helps weather difficult financial year

    02 March 2020

    Profits fall by 61% while investment return surge by 485% in 2019

  • Hiscox appoints new chief investment officer

    06 January 2020

    James Millard takes over from Alex Veys

  • Canopius becomes latest tenant at Axa’s London building

    22 October 2019

    The Lloyd’s re/insurer has agreed a pre-let for two floors at 22 Bishopsgate

  • Axa IMRA lets four floors of London skyscraper to Convene

    08 August 2019

    Flexible office provider to take 102,000 sq ft in 22 Bishopsgate

  • Hiscox’s H1 investment returns main driver of $168m profit

    29 July 2019

    Investment result of $148m balances out low reserve releases

  • Investment returns account for most of Hiscox’s H1 profit

    12 July 2019

    Investment performance covers for a difficult first six months on the underwriting side

  • Most insurers lack plans for Libor transition, Moody’s survey finds

    17 May 2019

    Prudential highlights liquidity risks of transition to new benchmarks in latest SFCR

  • Lloyd's syndicates $100m outsourcing treasure

    18 April 2019

    In the second part of our two-part series on Lloyd's syndicates and their investments, David Walker analyses their portfolio allocations and performance, uncovering a treasure most asset managers would want a map to.

  • Lloyd's syndicates open up about investment outsourcing

    11 April 2019

    Research by Insurance Risk Data reveals the 2018 winners and losers of the mandated asset managers for Lloyd's syndicates. David Walker reports on who won which mandates, who received applause and who wasn't that lucky.