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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.
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Exploring the demand in affordable housing
23 December 2024Mike Lohmeier, chief investment officer at IMPACT Community Capital, explains the current state of play in affordable housing investments in the US, and compares it to other real estate asset classes
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Moody's downgrade of France, the more things change the more they stay the same
18 December 2024Insurers and their asset managers react to the ramifications of the rating change going forward
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Does a litigious society pose a greater risk to insurers than global warming?
12 December 2024Insurance Asset Risk recently sat down with Chin Liu, director of insurance-linked securities (ILS), fixed income solutions and responsible investment research at Amundi US to discuss why ILS can be a good investment for life insurers and why eagle-eyed lawyers can pose a bigger risk to insurers than climate change.
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CIO Interview: Conning worried the Fed is not paying enough attention to inflation
09 December 2024Insurance Asset Risk sat down with Cindy Beaulieu, Conning's CIO for North America, to discuss the recent presidential election, the effect a second Trump administration could have on insurers, and the prospects for asset classes and investment risk in 2025.