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Investment risk-taking balanced out keiretsu sales' effect on MS&AD's solvency in 2024
21 May 2025Japanese group is selling down strategic holdings, along with Sompo and Tokio Marine
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'Beyond bonds' - Lloyd's syndicates' taste for 'variable return' assets
15 May 2025Fixed income is not set in stone for Lloyd's syndicates' CIOs, who are also investigating more esoteric assets
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Lloyd's syndicates ventured 'beyond the core' in 2024
01 May 2025For 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
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MS Amlin appoints head of capital management and investments
23 September 2024Emma Snowdon joins from Direct Line Group
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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