Fixed income

  • NZAOA releases fourth target setting protocol

    18 April 2024

    With inclusion of sovereign debt in asset classes assessed

  • RLAM appoints successor to head of fixed income

    18 April 2024

    Will Nicoll to take reins from Jonathan Platt at the end of 2024

  • Non-PE backed insurers feel pressure to compete with PE-backed firms

    15 April 2024

    Building up liquidity and securing more yield key focus for insurers, Insight Investment's O'Brien says

  • Zurich favours US equities over credit despite investor complacency across both asset classes

    12 April 2024

    Market rate cut expectations closer to reality than last year, but cracks beginning to form in the "perfect picture" landing scenario

  • Private debt at the forefront of insurers' continued advance into private markets

    10 April 2024

    According to global insurance survey by Mercer and Oliver Wyman

  • News roundup: Insurance asset management

    02 April 2024

    Covering the latest deals and people moves at AllianzGI, abrdn, AB, Société Générale and Impax

  • Tokio Marine affiliated manager foresees 10-year JGB yields at 1.5%

    26 March 2024

    TMAM expects "at least one" more interest rate hike in 2024

  • Chart of the Week: Japan's affiliates welcome arrival of novel concept - inflation

    22 March 2024

    Insurers' asset managers were expecting the BOJ's rates policy to change, as prices keep rising, sustainably

  • Institutional investors see opportunity in market volatility

    15 March 2024

    Survey from Aeon Investments sees 81% of respondents saying they expect an increase in opportunities to add value over the next two years

  • Chart of the Week: Why Rome should relax its 5% cap on loans and mortgage exposures for insurers

    15 March 2024

    Researcher Agostino Tripodi finds some sub-optimal GA allocation going on, in shadow of local-law limits on L&M holdings

  • A quarter of institutional investors expect "dramatic increase" in real estate development finance allocations over next three years

    13 March 2024

    Survey from Downing also finds ESG credentials of property development finance firms expected to come under increasing scrutiny

  • Lloyd's investment return jumps to £5.3bn in 2023 after 2022 £3.1bn loss

    07 March 2024

    Reversal from previous year down to interest rates and unwind of mark-to-market accounting treatment of FI portfolio, Lloyd's says

  • UK spring budget: expected record bond issuance key concern for RLAM

    06 March 2024

    RLAM head of rates and cash expects UK chancellor to stick with consensus on tax cuts

  • M&G launches two-year European bond fund to capture higher rates opportunity

    01 March 2024

    Bond strategy aims to lock in 4.5% gross annualised returns

  • Winners of the 2024 Insurance Asset Risk awards

    29 February 2024

    Insurance Asset Risk is pleased to announce the winners of its 2024 awards