-
Sub-IG allocation under the Solvency UK sun
27 March 2025With a smoothing of the BBB-cliff, are UK insurers better placed to invest in sub-IG assets?
-
Privates, privates and more privates, insurers tell GSAM
25 March 202514th annual global insurance survey also reveals changed views on inflation and US recession
-
Time and experience are making CIO's plans for private assets much more intricate
19 March 2025According to Nuveen's latest EQuilibrium Global Institutional Investor Survey, insurers are getting much savvier at building private markets portfolios, but could anything blow them of course?
-
Scottish Widows' head of RI on AI and AMs' voting records
17 March 2025Eva Cairns, head of responsible investment at Scottish Widows, explains the firm's governance policy around AI and the outcome of expecting voting policy adherence from asset managers
-
Insurers double down on defence spending, while maintaining ESG exclusions
12 March 2025ESG and defence investments not mutually exclusive, insurers suggest, as NATO powers commit to spend more
-
It will take more than Solvency tweaks to mobilise capital in UK plc
10 March 2025Private sector stakeholders highlight the need for more effective blended finance solutions at ABI annual conference
-
Insurers worldwide seek lessons from LA's infernos
05 March 2025From California to Australia, stakeholders in assessing, covering and combatting wildfire risk tell David Walker lessons will be learned from Los Angeles's horrors
-
Time is a jet plane: Are investors keeping cool in the head-spinning Trump era?
03 March 2025The US president has not even been in power for 50 days, and yet everything is changing fast
-
Insurers have fortified their RE debt platforms - and now rival banks
26 February 2025With banks retrenching from RE debt thanks to regulation, insurers are fortifying their positions and building out their platforms - with Europe set to become more like the US market
-
Why non-life CIOs may struggle in fight for APAC's spare capital
24 February 2025An APAC bond yield of 2.4%? Or an insurance operation's 19%? Take your pick...
- Ready, Steady, CLO: Solvency II Reform & the Case for AAA CLOs
- Chart of the week: Chinese state insurers' investment returns jump after year of equity push
- S&P warns SII reforms could spur more private credit investments
- Insurers' unique position in the finances of climate risk
- AllianzGI announces $270m close of APAC infra credit fund
- PGIM hires new head of insurance from Blackstone
- Allianz takes 51% stake in German battery storage platform
- NA lifers resilient in face of hypothetical private credit market stress, S&P Global Ratings says
- German insurers welcome seismic pension reform - with caveats
- AllianzGI highlights remuneration transparency concerns in Swedish AGM decision