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Japanese insurer's European merger could benefit sextet of external outsourcing partners
27 June 2024Carne, BlueBay AM, Veritas AM; CBRE, Aegon AM and LGT Capital Partners set to benefit
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Core competency - Lloyd's syndicates go outsourcing, and not just for peripheral assets
08 May 2024Lloyd's syndicates hire external help for the core of their general accounts, even if delegating makes more headlines when non-mainstream assets are involved
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CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'
02 May 2024In severe 'Nat Cat years' before 2023, CIOs at Lloyd's acted as 'cash registers', disgorging cash to meet steep property claims. Last year, a 'break in the weather' let them 'take stock', and many seized that 'down-time' to progress climate-investing with managers and funds
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The other 'hiking' - Lloyd's syndicate CIOs trek further 'off the beaten path' for alternatives
25 April 2024Yields on core fixed income may have improved with rate hikes of recent years, but some Lloyd's syndicate CIOs have ventured further from the well-trod path, searching for alternatives, as David Walker discovers
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Chart of the Week - Do PE-linked Lloyd's syndicates take more investment risk?
12 April 2024With PE links to insurers in the sights of regulators worldwide, we investigate the fair value hierarchy of some at Lloyd's
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MS Amlin syndicate rings changes in outsourcing arrangements
09 April 2024PE secondaries were on syndicate 2001's buy-list, in 2023
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Chart of the Week - Lloyd's syndicates and illiquid investments
05 April 2024Analysis reveals which syndicates like 'Level 3' assets most...and how much Apollo's syndicates have
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MS&AD and Tokio Marine herald higher interest income
14 February 2024Japanese juggernauts reported December-quarter results today
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Jessie Burrows becomes MS Amlin's new CFO
20 September 2023Burrows joins from Direct Line Group
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How best to describe a stuff-up? SFCR writers confront Whitehall's gilts-storm
01 May 2023Remember, remember the 23rd of September - when gilt yields exploded, without a mote of gunpowder in sight. David Walker reads how UK insurers revisited the scene in their SFCRs
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