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  • Battery energy storage: Is it ready for primetime?

    12 August 2024

    Insurers seem split on if the time is right to invest in battery energy storage, or if the risks are still too great

  • 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

  • Double act part 2: Do insurers need to start reassessing their liabilities versus assets position as rates stay higher for longer?

    29 July 2024

    AllianceBernstein'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.

  • Double act: IAR meets AllianceBernstein's first CIO of insurance and his deputy

    22 July 2024

    AllianceBernstein (AB) announced, in April, the appointment of Geoff Cornell, an industry veteran but a company outsider, as its first CIO of insurance.

  • Election day: How ballot box results are transforming a CIO's job

    04 July 2024

    As geopolitics is "literally shaping markets day-in and day-out", and UK and French electors choose their next governments, Insurance Asset Risk analyses what geopolitical instability might mean for CIOs

  • Insurers fighting an "arms race" over private credit, Phoenix's CIO says

    01 July 2024

    Hiscox and Just Group CIOs tell the Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2024 conference why it is important to keep external asset managers on their toes, particularly when it comes to private assets

  • IAR Asia 2024: Are CIOs investors or ALM professionals?

    20 June 2024

    Two chief investment officers discuss their changing responsibilities in light of new regulation at Insurance Asset Risk Asia Conference

  • What can the next UK government offer insurers?

    19 June 2024

    The ABI discusses the work of the Investment Delivery Forum and what the next government should do in its first 100 days to support private sector investment into 'green and good' infrastructure

  • The BPA sector is running hot - could anything slow this busy market down?

    17 June 2024

    Leading insurance investors in the UK pension risk transfer market sat down at Insurance Asset Risk's recent EMEA conference in London to discuss the burgeoning BPA sector and what, if anything, could waylay its dazzling progress

  • Fireside chat with Phoenix's Eakins: The days of insurance investments run by actuaries are gone

    12 June 2024

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