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• Insurers join EM climate change investment taskforce

  16 May 2025

  Initiative designed to unlock private investment to tackle climate change risk in emerging markets

• 'Beyond bonds' - Lloyd's syndicates' taste for 'variable return' assets

  15 May 2025

  Fixed income is not set in stone for Lloyd's syndicates' CIOs, who are also investigating more esoteric assets

• Comment: Wise words for Lloyd's syndicates considering 'new pastures'

  14 May 2025

  Insurance Asset Risk asked expert managers for their top advice to syndicates buying new asset classes

• Lloyd's of London appoints Guillermo Donadini as CIO

  12 May 2025

  Replacing Eleanor Bucks

• Patrick Tiernan nets top job at Lloyd's

  08 May 2025

  Becomes CEO effective 1 June

• Lloyd's syndicates ventured 'beyond the core' in 2024

  01 May 2025

  For most syndicates, 'core fixed income' was the anchor for their portfolios - but that did not prevent some from charting more distant waters with their general accounts in 2024

• When Lloyd's syndicates go investing, past patterns may not reflect future plans

  23 April 2025

  If the image of Lloyd's syndicates conjures up 'uniformly conservative' investors, then key outsourcing partners to the market tell David Walker, a 'rethink' may be in order

• 'Real' wars, and trade wars, keep geopolitics high on Lloyd's syndicates' risk-radars

  09 April 2025

  Conflict and resulting turbulence seem to beset all aspects of the 'world order', much to the ongoing dismay of syndicates, David Walker reports

• Lloyd's syndicate makes 36% on hedge fund, and 27% from gold, in 2024

  04 April 2025

  MAP also added, profitably, to gold and commodity ETFs

• Beazley Furlonge syndicate praises its best returns as funds and shareholdings grow

  04 April 2025

  Hedge funds, credit and equities all played role in 5.1% rate of return in 2024