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UK 10-year gilts to rise to 1.9% by 2024, KPMG predicts
04 March 2020If prediction correct, it will be "music to insurers' ears"
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NN IP launches corporate green bond fund
03 March 2020Market growth has made it a fixed income segment in its own right, Dutch firm believes
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Finding the rewards in low interest rates
19 February 2020Foresters Friendly Society's chief investment officer Corrado Pistarino explains why he believes it's a fallacy to think low interest rates constitute "unrewarded risk". Interview by Vincent Huck
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Folksam Group CIO appointed deputy CEO
14 February 2020Michael Kjeller takes up the role highlighting the role job of insurers in building a sustainable world
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Emerging markets outlook infected by a virus
13 February 2020Easing in geopolitical tensions combined with encouraging economic factors suggest a good year ahead for emerging markets, but will insurers take the bait considering economic disruptions from the latest coronavirus outbreak? Stephanie Harris and Vincent Huck report
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Beazley is recruiting a sustainability officer
07 February 2020To align climate change response across the group, CEO Andrew Horton reveals
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Investment returns outweigh surge in claims at Beazley
06 February 2020Profits up to $264m in 2019 from $41m the previous year
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Guardian Life appoints CIO
06 February 2020Jean LaTorre takes over from the retiring Tom Sorell
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Building real estate portfolios to match insurers' needs
06 February 2020Insurers remain less exposed to real estate than other institutional investors, in particular pension funds, according to a recent survey. Vincent Huck reports
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Generali Investments eyes green bond market opportunities
05 February 2020Affiliate of Italian giant launches its first sub-fund investing in green and sustainable bonds
- Comment: Insurers at the centre of pension de-risking's capital market shift
- Private credit market tops $3trn, estimates Alternative Credit Council
- Comment - Will Japanese couples stop giving birth to enough insurance CIOs?
- Bringing structured private credit to European insurers
- Japan Post Insurance doubles investments in private property fund since July
- Resolution Life seals $1bn block reinsurance deal in Hong Kong
- Resist urge to politicise finance, Munich Re says in response to "Europe first" calls
- 'Rise of the East and decline of the West' heralds "new era" for China's insurance AM
- Japan insurance trade body responds to IAIS paper on funded re and alternative investing
- Chart of the Week - DAV considers the best pension system, as Germany's demographic pyramid develops a 'bulging midriff'
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IAR EMEA 2025: Private credit RE lending getting more interesting, but market not fully repaired yet
10 June 2025Private assets investing requires "humility" to partner with expertise - RLAM says
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Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2025 round up: are markets optimistic or complacent?
10 June 2025
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IAR EMEA 2025: Internal productivity highest AI benefit, insurers say
10 June 2025Less than half of delegates at EMEA conference see strongest potential for AI being in 'improving strategic investment decisions'
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IAR EMEA 2025: Aviva looking for more private credit co-investment deals
10 June 2025UK private credit market seeing a lot of innovation due to Solvency UK reforms, Prasun Mathur says
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IAR EMEA 2025: Scottish Widows favours independence over Mansion House Accord
10 June 2025More needs to be done to boost UK investment opportunities