Archive

  • Comment - Is climate change disempowering the value of VaR?

    30 December 2022

    In global warming, CIOs will have to face down our climate's answer to Chuck Norris

  • Schroders appoints Hong-Kong based investment director

    24 November 2022

    Swa Wu joins from JP Morgan

  • Swimming with sharks

    16 August 2022

    From the cut-throat trading floor of the 'King of Wall Street' to the slow-moving insurance investment industry, Rip Reeves, soon-to-retire CIO at AEGIS Insurance, reflects on his career, today's challenges for CIOs, and making the move from 'firstborn' to 'ugly offspring'. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • US insurer oil investments benefiting from soaring prices

    03 March 2022

    Insurers have $111bn in oil and gas, as commodity touches $115 per barrel

  • Ukraine invasion elevates stagflation risk

    25 February 2022

    Subdued volatility is a thing of the past

  • Research: Insurers' investments in the carbon transition

    22 February 2022

    Report free to download

  • Columbia Threadneedle names new insurance head for EMEA

    18 February 2022

    Emmanuel Archampong has joined from Wells Fargo AM

  • The US outsourcing race

    14 February 2022

    The last year seems to have brought more asset management firms than ever into the insurance outsourcing space. How difficult is it to break into this market? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Notes from a small island - on outsourcing by Bermuda's insurers

    16 December 2021

    David Walker tells the story of how Bermudian CIOs opened up to independent fund managers

  • Infrastructure: a very American need

    16 November 2021

    US insurers have shown willingness to put money into infra - an exceptionally stable asset class. But they are being hamstrung by the antiquated regulatory capital structure in place. Sarfraz Thind reports