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Having a word with Phoenix Group CIO, Mike Eakins
14 May 2025Michael Eakins gives funky interview to Insurance Asset Risk after receiving his second CIO of the year award
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Return of public market assets? Or does private still hold sway?
12 May 2025Delegates at Insurance Asset Risk's Real Assets conference 2025 in London heard panellists discuss the complex interplay and relative benefits of public and private assets in portfolio construction amidst the current global backdrop
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SFCRs 2025 - German lifers as Europe's hard-core 'non-core' investors
08 May 2025Even after sleepy Bund yields staged a comeback, German life CIOs remain alive to rewards of alternative investments, their SFCRs show
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Secret Japanese CIO: Three key issues on my mind
07 May 2025As per the regulation, as of 1 April this year, Japan has a new Solvency II-type regulatory regime which is the Insurance Capital Standard developed by International Association of Insurance Supervisors.
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Solvency UK and the matching adjustment in three easy pieces
05 May 2025At our recent Investing in Real Assets Conference, we brought together David Otudeko of the ABI and Michael Henderson of Legal & General to discuss the future of Solvency UK
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Lloyd's syndicates ventured 'beyond the core' in 2024
01 May 2025For most syndicates, 'core fixed income' was the anchor for their portfolios - but that did not prevent some from charting more distant waters with their general accounts in 2024
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ESG in real assets - still fit for the future?
30 April 2025Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's Investing in Real Assets Conference 2025 in London last month discussed navigating sustainability in indirect investments and the shifting language of ESG investments
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Japan & US insurance investing - Overlapping worlds, or very different landscapes?
28 April 2025Eric Tanaka, relocated from the US to Japan to head the Wellington office. He reflects on the differences and similarities between the two markets.
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CIO interview: In praise of the grey hairs
24 April 2025In the second of this two part interview, Jelle van der Giessen reflects on his 10 year tenure as a CIO, what evolved and why the divorce between insurers and in-house asset managers needs to happen.
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When Lloyd's syndicates go investing, past patterns may not reflect future plans
23 April 2025If the image of Lloyd's syndicates conjures up 'uniformly conservative' investors, then key outsourcing partners to the market tell David Walker, a 'rethink' may be in order
- Lloyd's of London appoints Guillermo Donadini as CIO
- Sompo AM reshuffles senior roles from New York to London
- Dai-Ichi to raise stake in Capula hedge fund to 15%
- Raft of insurers sign new Mansion House Accord, but Scottish Widows demurs
- Lower C-Ross capital charge will boost shareholdings, says Fitch
- Rothesay North America CIO joins private real estate investment firm
- Return of public market assets? Or does private still hold sway?
- APAC Weekly - NFRA head and other Chinese heavy-hitters vow to fight Trump's tariff war
- Chart of the Week - European insurance premiums mapped out
- Japan Post Insurance toughens shareholder voting plans ahead of May meetings