Analysis

Behind the scenes: Inside L&G's unique investment in Togo

Insurers seen as prime candidates for development banks looking to broaden their investment bases

Insurers are wary of the other BBB

How could President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill make life difficult for insurers?

IAR Asia 2025 round up: No complaints albeit negative outlook

Asia a good place to be, as US exceptionalism wavers

Confusion takes over the great normalisation, Guy Miller tells Insurance Asset Risk conference

Summary of Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2025 keynote by Zurich's Guy Miller

Has impact investing taken a hit?

Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's EMEA 2025 conference in London discussed the challenges faced by insurers around impact and sustainable investing, the ESG backlash, and the possibility of a new dawn for the practice

Mike Eakins in the hot seat

At Insurance Asset Risk's recent EMEA 2025 conference in London, Mike Eakins, CIO of Phoenix Group, discussed in a fireside chat a wide set of issues, ranging from the new Mansion House Accord to the benefits of volatility and the continuing rise of private asset investments.

SFCR 2025 - The matching adjustment misfired, again, in Spain in 2024

Overall, the MA delivered a capital benefit to Spanish lifers using it in 2024. But that was not always the case, for the capital requirements of most of its users

How best to hedge - Schroders' wise counsel on FX risk and APAC insurers

After sharp intakes of breath by some Taiwan lifers as their dollar jolted 8% against the greenback over two days last month, Insurance Asset Risk asked Pedro Moura, head of Asia client solutions at Schroders, for advice on APAC insurers hedging FX risk.

Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2025 round up: are markets optimistic or complacent?

Tariff watch: is the US at an inflection point?

Investors are split on whether the US economy has weathered the worst impacts of the White House's tariff rollercoaster or if there could be more to come