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Is the future of equities in the Old World?
21 May 2025The US has been the king of equities for a long time - but recent policy has made that crown unsteady. Is Europe about to accede?
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The Trump administration as a Netflix drama: What happens in the next season?
19 May 2025Let's imagine the dying down of the tariff furore marks the end of the latest series, will tax-cuts and deregulation finally appear to offer insurers some light relief?
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'Beyond bonds' - Lloyd's syndicates' taste for 'variable return' assets
15 May 2025Fixed income is not set in stone for Lloyd's syndicates' CIOs, who are also investigating more esoteric assets
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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
- APAC Weekly - Hong Kong's FWD reveals outsourcing details in IPO plans
- EM Corporate Debt: An Underappreciated Opportunity for Insurers?
- Having a word with Phoenix Group CIO, Mike Eakins
- BaFin warns of credit risks as private debt holdings approach 30% at some insurers
- The Trump administration as a Netflix drama: What happens in the next season?
- Chubb appoints new chief investment officer
- Taiwan lifers took NT$47bn FX hit but made NT$150bn gains from foreign investments by February
- Chart of the Week - European CFOs' ongoing appetite for private markets investments
- Investors face US dollar currency risk, AllianzGI says
- Axa's SFCR reveals details of €19bn in life policy surrender volumes for 2024