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  • Comment: Insurers outsource gold investing amid fears of market boom turning to bust

    14 October 2025

    From WisdomTree to ETFs, buying into metals is occurring from France, to Germany, to Lloyd's

  • How should investors respond to "a year of disruptions"?

    02 July 2025

    Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's EMEA 2025 conference discuss the impact of uncertainty, and potential responses to upturned expectations

  • Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2025 round up: are markets optimistic or complacent?

    10 June 2025

  • Green shoots appear for biodiversity investing - but is it the natural habitat for insurers?

    26 June 2023

    It seems like it's on everyone's lips, but where should investors start to think about biodiversity, when it comes to investing in positive-impact assets? Josh Adcock asks asset owners and managers where they see opportunities flourishing, and how to weed out the wrong strategies

  • Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2023 conference round up

    12 June 2023

    The conference was held in London on 12 June and highlighted the investment risks and opportunities facing insurers. Vincent Huck reports

  • IAR EMEA: Insurers' nose for liquidity getting better

    12 June 2023

    But keep sniffing for the right amount, panellists say

  • Getting real about sustainable assets?

    09 May 2023

    Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's real asset conference 2023 debunk the idea of a 'greenium' and praise a widening of the real asset sustainability investment universe. Josh Adcock reports.

  • Insurance Risk & Capital audience put central bankers' future in the balance

    01 December 2022

    Russel Investment's Andrew Pease said reduction of inflation "ultimately a political decision"

  • The gilts crisis silver lining

    18 October 2022

    The UK financial market crisis has not been pretty for most investors. But while the overleveraged have suffered the current market downturn may actually benefit insurers in the long run. Ronan McCaughey and Sarfraz Thind report

  • Insurance ALM turns 160 years old!

    24 February 2022

    Today marks the 160th anniversary of what is believed to be the first actuarial paper on asset-liability management.... but has anything really changed since 1862? Vincent Huck blows out the candles, and gets reading...