Archive

  • Insurance and asset management - a marriage of convenience?

    19 August 2024

    Insurance Asset Risk analyses recent consolidations and sell-offs of AM units at European insurers

  • From the Gothic Dom Tower to wind and solar farms, the a.s.r. way

    07 August 2024

    How the dutch insurer is navigating its way through renewables investing in the Netherlands

  • A Lasting legacy - How Medvida is still helping Spanish lifers shed unwanted backbooks

    26 June 2024

    Life consolidation and backbook deals may have hit hurdles in Germany, but in Spain Antonio Trueba, CEO of consolidator Medvida Partners paints a different picture

  • CIO Interview: managing Europe's third largest general account

    08 April 2024

    Generali group CIO Francesco Martorana discusses the Italian giant's investment strategy and reveals some of its most exotic investments, including blockchain

  • Three CIOs tackle the dilemma of accessing real assets via public versus private markets

    02 April 2024

    Insurance Asset Risk Investing in Real Assets 2024 conference explored opportunities in both markets

  • CIO Interview: New interest rate regime requires creativeness, PIC's Rob Groves says

    19 February 2024

    In the first part of this two part interview, PIC chief investment officer Rob Groves discusses the make up of the UK insurer's portfolio and how to balance creative and conservative investment strategies.

  • Côte d'Ivoire 'resurrects' African govvies US$-bond issuance, signalling a fiery year for EMD

    07 February 2024

    The West African republic raised $2.6bn through two issuances, one traditional government bond and one sustainable bond, after receiving $8bn commitments from 400 investors, including insurers.

  • PRT market records are there to be broken, but they are not a measure of success, L&G's Moret says

    23 January 2024

    Dom Moret, head of origination and execution on the pension risk transfer team, takes Insurance Asset Risk behind the scenes of a record year in the pension risk transfer market at L&G

  • Comment - How life insurers might respond to the IMF on private equity risks

    08 January 2024

    The IMF listed various risks of growing PE involvement in the re/insurance industry

  • Benign or bust - The outlook for 2024 is anything but boring

    03 January 2024

    Decisions from central banks, political instability, regulatory changes - many of the threats posed by 2024 are out of insurer's hands