Archive

  • SFCR 2025 - France's CIOs return to 'core values' as fixed income shines

    13 August 2025

    Alts are a delightful amuse-bouche - but Europe's largest industry still feeds up on its OATs

  • Secret strategist: UK gov lacks "concrete" answers for encouraging investment

    07 August 2025

    In the wake of the 'Leeds Reforms' and the chancellor's Mansion House speech, a strategist at a European insurer tells Josh Adcock the tone is encouraging but the detail is missing

  • Insurers say EU and UK solvency reforms are too timid

    04 August 2025

    Has the PRA been "ludicrously slow" to adapt to growing insurer demand for private and productive assets, and is the European Commission following suit?

  • Please sir, we want some more... support to invest in UK productive assets

    28 July 2025

    ABI and Investment Delivery Forum call for more support amidst update against £100bn ten-year investment goal - despite PRA saying they have all they need

  • Private markets are not just for the largest insurers

    23 July 2025

    Small to mid-size insurers have grown their investments in private markets since 2019, Conning finds

  • APAC Weekly: US exceptionalism is dented, but what is next?

    08 July 2025

    Asian insurers ponder the place of gold in insurance investment portfolios

  • From major regulators to major ratings agencies, funded re causes concern

    07 July 2025

    From the UK to Japan to the rest of Asia, funded re rings warning bells at regulators and ratings agencies, and leading large lifers and their asset managers are treading carefully

  • Insurers are wary of the other BBB

    25 June 2025

    How could President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill make life difficult for insurers?

  • Confusion takes over the great normalisation, Guy Miller tells Insurance Asset Risk conference

    23 June 2025

    Summary of Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2025 keynote by Zurich's Guy Miller

  • Mike Eakins in the hot seat

    16 June 2025

    At Insurance Asset Risk's recent EMEA 2025 conference in London, Mike Eakins, CIO of Phoenix Group, discussed in a fireside chat a wide set of issues, ranging from the new Mansion House Accord to the benefits of volatility and the continuing rise of private asset investments.