Risk

  • Diversification of asset classes to continue in 2025, PGIM CEO says

    13 December 2024

    Idiosyncratic risk becoming greater concern to CIOs than business cycle risk

  • Charts of the Year - How 2024 looked, in twelve charts

    13 December 2024

    It was never a dull moment in 2024, including for our Chart of the Week column. This week we provide 12 new charts, which we feel summarise the 'key points' from the year just gone.

  • MS&AD adds biodiversity assessment to renewables risk assessments

    11 December 2024

    Following the "rapid expansion" of renewable energy adoption in Japan

  • ECB to stay rates course with 25bps cut this week, AllianzGI says

    09 December 2024

    Michael Krautzberger expects gradualist approach until US trade policy becomes clearer

  • 'Wild OATs' - Michel Barnier's €300bn headache for French CIOs

    09 December 2024

    Sharp fluctuations hit OATs as French PM Michel Barnier resigns

  • Chart of the Week - Lapse risk and where it emerged in Italy

    06 December 2024

    IVASS asked lifers to "rethink" products after lapses hit 12-year peaks in 2023. We examine who might be thinking hardest

  • Poor fixed income investment outlook for Europe in 2025, AllianzGI says

    05 December 2024

    Michael Krautzberger says US tariffs and policy uncertainty combine with political uncertainty in Europe, on the day France ousted its prime minister

  • European insurers resilient to rates in 2025, Fitch says

    04 December 2024

    Lifers to benefit from higher reinvestment yields due to long portfolio duration

  • BoE calls for increased transparency around PE-backed (re)insurers' exposures

    03 December 2024

    Warns of systemic risks at the intersection of the PE and life insurance sectors if vulnerabilities not addressed

  • Geopolitical risks could eat up 95% of European insurers' capital surplus, S&P says

    29 November 2024

    Ratings agency found equity risk far outweighed bond risk in stress test scenario, despite lower exposures

  • TPI Centre publishes report on state of transition at 70 sovereigns

    29 November 2024

    Reviewing the climate change performance of the countries assessed against the ASCOR framework in 2024

  • Chart of the Week - EIOPA spells out dangers of fossil fuel investments

    29 November 2024

    As well as suggesting capital surcharges for GHG-risk equities and bonds this month, EIOPA analysed the risks of keeping them in Gas

  • Nippon Life LP backs local AI healthcare start-up to combat "serious labour shortage"

    28 November 2024

    Zest focuses on AI for in-home and nursing care

  • Comment - Postcard from Downunder - 'Welcome to the Climate Crisis'

    28 November 2024

    Australia's insurers essentially told, fossil fuel production is making your product unaffordable

  • China's Taiking Life files report on further backing for UK's Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant

    28 November 2024

    Life firm made announcement about £4m allocation this month