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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
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IAR EMEA 24 - Matching adjustment reform, big bang or damp squib?
27 June 2024At Insurance Asset Risk's recent EMEA 2024 conference in London, panellists sat down to discuss some of the main regulatory issues facing insurers this year from reforms to Solvency UK to the ever-proliferating amount of ESG regulation
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A Lasting legacy - How Medvida is still helping Spanish lifers shed unwanted backbooks
26 June 2024Life consolidation and backbook deals may have hit hurdles in Germany, but in Spain Antonio Trueba, CEO of consolidator Medvida Partners paints a different picture
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IAR EMEA 24: Buckle in for inflation and geopolitical bumpiness
24 June 2024Conference panellists discussed the persistence of inflation and the power of political risk to surprise
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COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Iberian peninsula where core fixed income is king
21 June 2024High-grade corporates and debt, mainly local, were dislodged rarely by other investments in Spain's and Portugal's GAs last year
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IAR Asia 2024: Are CIOs investors or ALM professionals?
20 June 2024Two chief investment officers discuss their changing responsibilities in light of new regulation at Insurance Asset Risk Asia Conference
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What can the next UK government offer insurers?
19 June 2024The ABI discusses the work of the Investment Delivery Forum and what the next government should do in its first 100 days to support private sector investment into 'green and good' infrastructure
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The BPA sector is running hot - could anything slow this busy market down?
17 June 2024Leading insurance investors in the UK pension risk transfer market sat down at Insurance Asset Risk's recent EMEA conference in London to discuss the burgeoning BPA sector and what, if anything, could waylay its dazzling progress
- Comment: Insurers at the centre of pension de-risking's capital market shift
- Bringing structured private credit to European insurers
- Munich Re calls for "more pragmatic" regulatory approach to asset classification
- Insurance asset managers eye more risk taking in next 12 months
- Resolution Life seals $1bn block reinsurance deal in Hong Kong
- Swiss Life sells petrol station property in north of England
- Japan insurance trade body responds to IAIS paper on funded re and alternative investing
- Royal London completes largest BPA deal to date
- 'Rise of the East and decline of the West' heralds "new era" for China's insurance AM
- Comment - Will Japanese couples stop giving birth to enough insurance CIOs?