Archive

  • Suspension of dividend payments, more firepower for the investment teams?

    09 April 2020

    As some insurers follow suit on regulators' urge not to pay dividends and others refuse to comply, Vincent Huck looks at whether dividend retention could result in more ammunition for the investment teams to invest in markets

  • IAR SURVEY: Insurers unprepared for COVID-19's market turbulence

    06 April 2020

    Insurance Asset Risk surveyed the industry to find out how it is rethinking asset allocation in the wake of COVID-19's impact on the economy and financial markets. Vincent Huck presents the results

  • Creating a regulatory and policy environment that supports long-term insurance, part II

    20 June 2019

    At Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2019 conference UK and European insurers discuss as part of a panel the pressing regulatory issues challenging their investment. In the second part of this two-part series, they discuss the MA and transition from Libor. Compiled by David Walker

  • Creating a regulatory and policy environment that supports long-term insurance

    14 June 2019

    At Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2019 conference UK and European insurers discuss the pressing regulatory issues challenging their investments. Compiled by David Walker

  • Insurers desperately look, without success, to regulators for Libor answers

    14 June 2019

    Insurers lamented lack of help from regulators to switch from Libor, at IAR 2019 European conference

  • Addressing the influence of credit rating agencies

    04 June 2019

    Erik Vynckier, Foresters Friendly Society, will speak at Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2019

  • How to win mandates and influence asset allocation

    04 January 2017

    As the largest institutional investors in Europe, insurers represent a major market for asset managers, but they also bring Solvency II-shaped baggage. In this Q&A, Erik Vynckier breaks down the building blocks to winning the custom of European insurers

  • The 2017 investment agenda

    30 December 2016

    With 2016 drawing to a close, investors on behalf of insurers can look back on what was a particularly challenging year. They will be keen to steady the ship and step up investment performance in 2017. Asa Gibson reports

  • Insurtech VC fund aims to halve Solvency II capital charge

    16 November 2016

    Insurer-only fund should quality as strategic investment

  • Low yields and the Darwinian battle facing life insurers

    31 October 2016

    The life sector must adapt to survive under Solvency II with low investment yields, says the former chief investment officer of Alliance Bernstein, Erik Vynckier. He talks to David Walker