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  • Optimising insurance portfolios with scenario-based machine learning

    03 October 2025

    Webinar available on demand

  • Insurers and their managers expect increased risk appetite, research finds

    26 September 2025

    Survey from Ortec Finance puts spotlight on FI, private markets and internal spend on risk management

  • Insurers eye FI investment opportunities in year ahead, research finds

    11 September 2025

    Respondents to Ortec Finance study also see private markets and equities opportunities, as well as increased credit and equity risk

  • Insurance investment managers expect boost to private asset allocations in year ahead, new survey finds

    18 June 2025

    Private debt, PE and private RE top asset classes to benefit

  • Insurance asset managers eye more risk taking in next 12 months

    05 June 2025

    Recession seen as the biggest macroeconomic risk to their investment portfolios

  • Insurers expect investment complexity to increase over next two years

    27 March 2024

    Research from Ortec Finance finds 89% of respondents expect a rise in allocations to alternative assets in the next 12 months

  • 98% of insurer investment professionals concerned about greenwashing, Ortec Finance survey finds

    12 March 2024

    11% feel their own company's ESG strategies and programmes are "very ineffective"

  • Insurers set to ratchet up risk and back private equities in 2024

    14 February 2024

    Insurers are heaping a hearty portion of risk onto their 2024 investment plates, according to a survey from Ortec Finance, as 51% of insurer investment professionals surveyed believe the risk profile of the funds they help to manage has increased over the past 12 months, and 59% expect a further increase in the next 12 months - within which 14% predicting a "dramatic rise".

  • Ortec Finance appoints new chief innovation officer

    12 February 2024

    Hens Steehouwer will be responsible for developing solutions advising on climate, AI investments

  • Spectre of stagflation haunts insurer investors' allocations

    30 January 2024

    Survey from Ortec Finance shows investors picking assets best suited for hedging against inflation