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  • Liquidity optimisation for insurers: Building a bespoke portfolio solution

    Access to cash and cash-equivalents has come into greater focus in the wake of recent market events and regulatory changes. Regulators around the world have been asking investors to hold more liquidity and/or placing greater emphasis on existing rules.

  • More comfortable down the curve

    US-based Brett Sullivan, head of alternative investments for Allianz Life, speaks Risk about the thinking behind the investments made in private credit.

  • Illiquidity in Bermudian investment portfolios

    09 September 2024

    Bermudian groups' fair value hierarchies in 2023 analysed by Insurance Risk Data

  • Value of US+UK PRT markets to exceed £250bn in next three years, L&G says

    06 September 2024

    Both markets are on track for one of their largest years ever

  • Robeco launches high income green bond strategy in credit space

    06 September 2024

    New platform will be certified Article 9 under SFDR

  • Axa IM Alts acquires private debt and private equity firm Capza

    06 September 2024

    Firm has €9bn of AuM and is focused on mid-market corporates across private debt and private equity in EMEA

  • South Korean insurers' net earnings rose 3% in H1, all thanks to non-life firms

    06 September 2024

    Industry's return on equity brightened to 11.8%

  • BMA reveals private credit investment weightings among Bermuda's asset-intensive re/insurers

    06 September 2024

    Alts allocations not uniformly higher than across all Bermuda's commercial long-term re/insurers

  • Bermuda regulator assesses the risks and rewards of insurers' private credit holdings

    06 September 2024

    Watchdog found over 80% of private placement and 90% of CLO holdings are IG among funded re/insurers

  • Chart of the week - Macroeconomics of climate change, short term pains for long term gains

    06 September 2024

    Today's cost of climate policy is worth it on the long run, macro and climate economist at Zurich Insurance Group argues