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M&G's insurance CIO on managing a £1bn office real estate project
24 July 2024Ciaran Mulligan, chief investment officer at M&G's treasury & investment office, explains how the group's life business works with the asset management arm, its private markets exposure, big themes on his mind currently, and details the story of its star £1bn real estate asset, 40 Leadenhall
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Double act: IAR meets AllianceBernstein's first CIO of insurance and his deputy
22 July 2024AllianceBernstein (AB) announced, in April, the appointment of Geoff Cornell, an industry veteran but a company outsider, as its first CIO of insurance.
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Liquidity management in an era of liquidity stress-tests
17 July 2024Amid markets, and politicians delivering never-ending stressors of liquidity, insurers at Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2024 conference discussed how their needs for and measurement of liquidity may have changed in recent years, and the reasons why
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Japan's life CIOs show yen for more than just ultra-long JGBs
15 July 2024JGBs can certainly help Japan's CIOs, in extending beyond 30 years in their duration - but the 'duration' of policyholders in Japan can extend even further. David Walker examines what CIOs can do when hunting for duration, and yield
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Don't be blinded by data scarcity on biodiversity, insurers say
10 July 2024Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's EMEA 2024 conference in June broke down the challenges involved in measuring biodiversity risk, sounded notes of optimism for the future, and urged for a new valuation for nature
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Hydrogen is developing quickly, but are insurers brave enough to take a punt?
08 July 2024The US government is pouring cash into newer renewables technologies in an effort to get them to scale and attract private investment
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COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Benelux insurers praise outsourcing partners
05 July 2024As Benelux CIOs generally got better news in 2023 and 2022, back-slapping for mandate managers seemed the order of the day
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Election day: How ballot box results are transforming a CIO's job
04 July 2024As geopolitics is "literally shaping markets day-in and day-out", and UK and French electors choose their next governments, Insurance Asset Risk analyses what geopolitical instability might mean for CIOs
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Insurers fighting an "arms race" over private credit, Phoenix's CIO says
01 July 2024Hiscox and Just Group CIOs tell the Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2024 conference why it is important to keep external asset managers on their toes, particularly when it comes to private assets
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COTW - Round the World in SFCRs: Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Slovenia
28 June 2024SFCRs from southern Europe's insurers contained a mix of epic investment performance, and conservative approaches in 2023
- Japanese earthquake reinsurer backs sustainability-linked bond
- M&G's insurance CIO on managing a £1bn office real estate project
- Singapore regulator expects more private credit investments as insurers grow assets 7%
- Double act: IAR meets AllianceBernstein's first CIO of insurance and his deputy
- Parallel lending opportunities becoming more attractive to insurers, Muzinich and Co says
- EU Solvency II reform a "golden opportunity" to reduce risk margin, Insurance Europe says
- Solvency UK reforms contribute to £100m risk margin reduction for mutuals, Broadstone finds
- INVL's private debt fund backs Latvian startup investor
- Israeli insurer invests in London hotel portfolio
- Local government pension reform could unlock £40bn in infrastructure investment, PIC says