Archive

  • Prudential appoints new CFO after code of conduct investigation into incumbent

    31 May 2023

    James Turner, who resigned today, to be replaced by Ben Bulmer

  • Chart of the Week - Will new MA liabilities give UK CIOs fresh investment opportunities?

    12 May 2023

    Whitehall has mooted income protection and with-profits - a £6.6bn market - for MA inclusion

  • Chart of the Week - The MA's £482bn 'capital gift' to UK lifers (and their CIOs)

    21 April 2023

    UK infrastructure, gilts and credit on the GA menu for most lifers' MA portfolios

  • Thoughts from a CRO: the problem with CLOs

    17 April 2023

    Will the push into leverage now come back and bite the insurance investors who have been stocking up on CLOs and private credit? Quite possibly, according to Nick Silitch, ex-CRO of Prudential Financial.

  • The many forking paths in Asia's net-zero transition

    27 March 2023

    Financing the energy transition across Asia is often described as one uniform path whose trajectory differs from Europe's and North America's due to APAC's fossil fuel reliance. But there may be as many paths taken within APAC as there are nations involved, David Walker finds

  • NAIC's CLO regulation proposals show divisions in the market

    03 March 2023

    Regulators met this week with no positive outcome on discussions

  • Nippon Life "optimistic" about Scope 3 inclusion in future

    02 March 2023

    Investees providing data might act as guide, and bellwethers

  • Low-carbon benchmarks risk pulling assets from EMs, warns Prudential

    01 March 2023

    Insurer urges data providers to significantly broaden EM coverage

  • Falling investments sends Australian health firms' profits down 33%

    01 March 2023

    Medibank singles out "manager underperformance" in property mandate

  • Prudential Financial sides with collaborative approach for liquidity management

    27 February 2023

    PGIM paper calls for focused role as liquidity concerns rise