Archive

• Outsourced or in-house: Zurich's CIO on finding the right balance

  26 April 2017

  Urban Angehrn oversees Zurich Insurance Group's $190bn asset book. With no pure asset management business in the group, he talks to Asa Gibson about selecting managers, deciding when to manage in-house and the importance of responsible investment.

• Zurich appoints Angehrn as chief investment officer

  11 June 2015

  Current head of alternative investments replaces Cecilia Reyes

• Insurers see the gold in green

  09 April 2015

  Green bonds are looking increasingly attractive to insurance companies which want to meet their risk and return objectives while producing a positive environmental or social impact. But there are concerns about the definition and capacity of the market, as Mark Nicholls explains

• Zurich CIO given wider role

  12 February 2015

  Reyes adds Asia role; group investment result up 24%

• The art of asset allocation

  25 November 2014

  Creating an asset allocation policy is only the first step in an insurer's asset management business. Getting the policy implemented is a whole separate challenge. Julian Temes, head of strategy implementation at Zurich, talks to Sarfraz Thind about the nitty gritty of execution.

• Insurers plan bigger allocations to real estate and infrastructure

  06 October 2014

  These are the two leading asset classes favoured by insurers as a BlackRock survey shows one in three firms plans to increase their risk appetite over the next three years

• Zurich to double investment in green bonds

  15 July 2014

  Largest commitment to date for growing market