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  • Insurance Asset Risk's Responsible Investing for Insurers conference round up

    16 October 2023

    The conference was held in London on 16 October and highlighted the challenges and dilemmas insurers face in building and implementing sustainable investment strategies

  • IAR RI: Insurers shouldn't fear to make a start on biodiversity investing, Zurich says

    16 October 2023

    Returns on investments and doing good in nature no longer mutually exclusive

  • IAR Americas: Home working inflicting pain on office owners similar to financial crisis

    27 September 2023

    Habits may be starting to change though

  • Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference round up

    26 September 2023

    The conference was held in New York on 26 September and highlighted key opportunities in private markets as well as challenges in the regulatory space

  • CIOs to fasten seatbelts for bumpy landing as Fed spots runway

    13 September 2023

    "The Fed won't hike rates next week," former president of Kansas City Fed predicts. While asset owners are at odds on the likelihood of a recession and asset managers brace themselves for what will not be a "piece of (cheese)cake"

  • Zurich asserts faith in office real estate despite challenges

    04 September 2023

    Mid-year real estate outlook says offices will comprise smaller part of portfolios in future but will remain integral component

  • Are we there yet?

    21 August 2023

    Central bank base rates continue to climb to decades-long highs over the summer, leaving market participants in a blur as to how far away the peak is

  • Zurich Hong Kong's GA - a ship nearly on autopilot

    12 July 2023

    Philipp Furrer, chief investment officer for Hong Kong and Singapore at Zurich, reveals why he sleeps very well at night. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Asia's CIOs face up to having to 'know it all'

    03 July 2023

    Insurance investors discuss the lessons learned from the last few years of severe volatility, and reveal what [Chat] 'GPT' actually stands for, at Insurance Asset Risk's Hong Kong Seminar 2023. Compiled by Vincent Huck

  • IAR Hong Kong: "I know more about accountancy than I care to know," APAC CIO says

    29 June 2023

    Zurich's Vincent and AIA's Konyn reflect on how CIOs have had to become omni-experts