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IAR North America 2024 round up
16 September 2024Insurance Risk and Capital Americas, an Insurance Asset Risk and InsuranceERM conference, took place on 16 September tackling regulation, private credit and illiquidity considerations amongst other topics
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2024: ESG Indicators (PAIs) Reach New Data Quality Heights for Alternative Investments"
16 September 2024While discussions around "whether and how well alternative investments funds deliver Principal Adverse Impact KPIs (PAIs) via the European ESG Template (EET)" feel as if they happened just yesterday, EU Article 4 SFDR investors such as life insurers and pension funds already published their second PAI statement for 2023.
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CIO Interview: Elo's Jonna Ryhänen
11 September 2024Jonna Ryhänen has been CIO at Elo, one of Finland's largest pension insurance companies, since December of last year. Working out of Elo's HQ in Espoo, Finland's second city, Ryhänen took on a portfolio with assets under management worth around €30bn.
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Did the Fed miss a trick?
21 August 2024Headaches at the Fed and what they mean for insurers
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Insurance and asset management - a marriage of convenience?
19 August 2024Insurance Asset Risk analyses recent consolidations and sell-offs of AM units at European insurers
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Overdue, healthy, market correction suggest overblown fear of recession
14 August 2024The recent market correction has been a healthy one that's shaken markets out of their complacency, according to Zurich, and the environment is still supportive of investment in US equities - as long as volatility doesn't stay for too long
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Battery energy storage: Is it ready for primetime?
12 August 2024Insurers seem split on if the time is right to invest in battery energy storage, or if the risks are still too great
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From the Gothic Dom Tower to wind and solar farms, the a.s.r. way
07 August 2024How the Dutch insurer is navigating its way through renewables investing in the Netherlands
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Double act part 2: Do insurers need to start reassessing their liabilities versus assets position as rates stay higher for longer?
29 July 2024AllianceBernstein's new CIO for insurance, Geoff Cornell, and his deputy, Gary Zhu, discuss risk in the second half of the year, the potential for unexpected shocks and how the asset manager is utilising AI to help navigate choppy investment waters.
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Double act: IAR meets AllianceBernstein's first CIO of insurance and his deputy
22 July 2024AllianceBernstein (AB) announced, in April, the appointment of Geoff Cornell, an industry veteran but a company outsider, as its first CIO of insurance.