Archive

• A career like a ski line

  08 March 2023

  Insurance Asset Risk's young professional of the year 2023 recipient, Carly Segal, recounts what took her from the ski slopes of Vermont to the fixed income team at JPMAM in London. Interview by Vincent Huck

• The rise of the chief liquidity officer?

  28 February 2023

  Moving away from traditional assets has raised scrutiny of liquidity risk management. Is there a need for a chief liquidity officer? Sarfraz Thind reports

• Pension Insurance Corporation foray into infrastructure assets

  25 January 2023

  From financing social housing to helping the London School of Economics build sustainably, to UK trainline rolling stock, PIC is full-steam ahead on debt investments, as Elizabeth Cain, head of debt origination there, explains to David Walker

• Comment - How EIOPA helps Europe's insurers 'keep up with the Kardashians'

  28 December 2022

  EIOPA - and, separately, Insurance Risk Data - is helping practitioners to learn the latest about Europe's insurers, and their outsourcing preferences. By David Walker

• How German CIOs are doing well, in 'doing good'

  21 December 2022

  Germany's CIOs are a fairly heterogeneous group, but one thing - or actually three - fairly unites them these days: E, and S, and G. And the theme stretches from Allianz, almost all the way 'down' to the smallest GA-minnow the country has to offer. David Walker reports

• Unbundling risk, liquidity and alternatives in Bermuda

  14 December 2022

  On the back of the regulator's announcement of its intention to ramp up scrutiny on Bermudians' illiquid investments, insurers discuss their approach to alternative asset classes and the 'loose' concept of illiquidity. Vincent Huck reports

• Going with the floe - Nordic and Scandinavian CIOs' returns anything but glacial in 2021

  14 November 2022

  While central and southern European CIOs were busy grinding out returns in tough markets, their Nordic and Scandinavian peers were flying, finds Dåvid Wälker

• The Big Reveal - insurers demand look-through...but reply in kind

  08 November 2022

  CIOs might require fund managers to 'show what they've got', to examine holdings and reduce various Solvency II capital charges - but increasingly transparency is working both ways, David Walker unearths

• Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2022 conference round up

  28 September 2022

  The conference was held in New York on 27 September and highlighted the pain ahead for insurance investors. Vincent Huck reports

• Arena Capital the smooth operator

  19 September 2022

  High yield is usually associated with high risk. But Arena Capital is showing it need not be so—it has produced stellar returns for insurers in recent times and in doing so smoothed out some of the volatility associated with the asset class. Sarfraz Thind reports