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Time and experience are making CIO's plans for private assets much more intricate
19 March 2025According to Nuveen's latest EQuilibrium Global Institutional Investor Survey, insurers are getting much savvier at building private markets portfolios, but could anything blow them of course?
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Insurers double down on defence spending, while maintaining ESG exclusions
12 March 2025ESG and defence investments not mutually exclusive, insurers suggest, as NATO powers commit to spend more
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It will take more than Solvency tweaks to mobilise capital in UK plc
10 March 2025Private sector stakeholders highlight the need for more effective blended finance solutions at ABI annual conference
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Time is a jet plane: Are investors keeping cool in the head-spinning Trump era?
03 March 2025The US president has not even been in power for 50 days, and yet everything is changing fast
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How can an asset manager provide an insurer with the best custom fit?
17 February 2025James Bradbury, business development manager on Wellington Management's EMEA insurance team, tells David Walker how the manager's bespoke solutions are cut to fit its customers
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Are the Magnificent Seven the only tech game in town?
22 January 2025AllianzGI's CIO global technology equity, Jeremy Gleeson, discusses the broadening out of tech investments in 2025, why early disappointments are to be expected, and the semiconductor cycle turning point
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Tariffs and taxes and Trump, oh my!
15 January 2025Zurich guides us down the yellow brick road and into the investment landscape for 2025, including a slowing rate cut trajectory, an extension of the current business cycle, and trade uncertainty
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From the knowable to the unknowable: Preparing for 2025
08 January 2025As insurers and their asset managers settle back behind their desks after the festive period, we look at some of the themes that could dominate the next few months
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BPA market steamrolls through 2024, but where's the drama?
06 January 2025UK PRT market volume is expected to settle around the £45bn mark, L&G's latest Endgame report suggests, but are pension schemes finding it increasingly difficult to catch insurer's eyes?
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How is time changing insurers appetite for private assets?
25 December 2024Matthew Bass, head of private alternatives at AllianceBernstein (AB), discusses with Insurance Asset Risk the trends in the private asset space, insurer's changing tastes and his predictions for 2025.