Analysis

  • It's complicated: Avalanche of reforms test US insurers relationship with NAIC

    07 October 2024

    US insurers are currently facing an avalanche of new regulations to assimilate into their practice

  • Nick Liolis on Guardian's partnership with HPS Investment Partners

    02 October 2024

    Guardian is going against the PE tide, by taking a minority stake in HPS Investment Partners

  • Sustainability Charter for the bulk annuity process

    01 October 2024

    Cléo Fitzsimons, head of sustainability at PIC, describes the benefits of the recently adopted charter

  • Reading the tea leaves: How are CIOs preparing for lower rates?

    26 September 2024

    Asymmetric risk visible in a lot of asset classes at the moment, audience hears at Insurance Risk & Capital Americas 2024

  • The thorny regulatory issue of PE and Bermudian re/insurers

    23 September 2024

    The BMA has its sights set on parent-originated illiquid investments in the GAs of Bermuda's underwriters

  • IAR North America 2024: Geopolitics and recession top of audience's risk concerns

    18 September 2024

    Panellists at Insurance Risk and Capital Americas 2024 react

  • IAR North America 2024 round up

    16 September 2024

    Insurance Risk and Capital Americas, an Insurance Asset Risk and InsuranceERM conference, took place on 16 September tackling regulation, private credit and illiquidity considerations amongst other topics

  • 2024: ESG Indicators (PAIs) Reach New Data Quality Heights for Alternative Investments"

    16 September 2024

    While discussions around "whether and how well alternative investments funds deliver Principal Adverse Impact KPIs (PAIs) via the European ESG Template (EET)" feel as if they happened just yesterday, EU Article 4 SFDR investors such as life insurers and pension funds already published their second PAI statement for 2023.

  • CIO Interview: Elo's Jonna Ryhänen

    11 September 2024

    Jonna Ryhänen has been CIO at Elo, one of Finland's largest pension insurance companies, since December of last year. Working out of Elo's HQ in Espoo, Finland's second city, Ryhänen took on a portfolio with assets under management worth around €30bn.

  • Illiquidity in Bermudian investment portfolios

    09 September 2024

    Bermudian groups' fair value hierarchies in 2023 analysed by Insurance Risk Data