Analysis

  • The next step in impact? Catalysing scale

    22 October 2024

    M&G's Catalyst believes the climate transition is "arguably the greatest commercial opportunity in history", as it looks to carve out a niche in funding the scale-up of innovative businesses

  • CIO interview: Aspen looking for duration, quality and... more asset managers

    17 October 2024

    Aspen's chief investment officer for US and Bermuda, Thomas Preis met with Insurance Asset Risk in New York to discuss the Bermuda-headquartered group's investment strategy to move up in quality, and further diversify its asset classes and outsourcing asset managers

  • The art of fishing in more than one pond at F&G

    16 October 2024

    Chief investment officer Leena Punjabi discusses the US insurer's investment strategy, its partnership with Blackstone, and where the investment opportunities currently lie.

  • Grudge match: How is the market preparing for the US presidential election?

    14 October 2024

    The US presidential race in just a few months has dispensed more thrills and spills than the fabled race of 1968. But what is worrying insurers and their asset managers about the outcome of 2024?

  • CIO Interview: Pricing in the benefits of old age

    09 October 2024

    Genworth chief investment officer Kelly Saltzgaber explains how the US insurer makes the most of its liabilities characteristics to find yield in duration and illiquid assets

  • 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