Archive

• Wellington wins PIC's £700m US muni bond mandate

  18 November 2020

  Manager's climate risk expertise key consideration for mandate win, insurer says

• Asset managers turn from outsourcing partners to owners of Bermuda re/insurers

  11 November 2020

  Research by Insurance Risk Data analyses the trend of part ownership of Bermudian re/insurers by asset managers, looking in particular at the investments of Wellington, Blackstone and Carlyle. David Walker reports

• Lloyd's - an investor in all but name?

  10 August 2020

  The 330-year-old institution might have made its name with insurance, but in recent years its investments, with the help of third-party asset managers, have countered heavy losses from the liability side of the balance sheet. Is the old dog learning new tricks, David Walker asks

• Loomis Sayles builds out insurance focus

  02 August 2019

  Asset manager targets growth with new insurance team

• European Insurers’ favour affiliates as manager of choice

  18 June 2019

  Analysis of 200 European underwriters’ SFCRs by Insurance Risk Data reveals

• Lloyd's syndicates open up about investment outsourcing

  11 April 2019

  Research by Insurance Risk Data reveals the 2018 winners and losers of the mandated asset managers for Lloyd's syndicates. David Walker reports on who won which mandates, who received applause and who wasn't that lucky.

• Expanding impact through the public bond markets

  Tapping public bond markets, and embracing a broad universe of investments beyond green bonds, can help insurers deliver on their impact-investing goals.

• Insurance & Climate Risk EMEA conference: Should regulators lead on impact investment

  05 December 2018

  Panellists split on industry led and mandatory approach

• Brewing storm: Are investors discounting climate risks and opportunities?

  Asset prices do not seem to be adequately reflecting the long-term systemic risk from global climate change. Wellington Management's Alan Hsu explains why insurers are likely to lead the repricing of climate risk – and how multi-decade public-equity approaches might help.

• Lloyd's syndicates slide down credit spectrum to boost returns

  12 April 2017

  Reduced exposure to sovereign and AAA-rated bonds