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Does a litigious society pose a greater risk to insurers than global warming?
12 December 2024Insurance Asset Risk recently sat down with Chin Liu, director of insurance-linked securities (ILS), fixed income solutions and responsible investment research at Amundi US to discuss why ILS can be a good investment for life insurers and why eagle-eyed lawyers can pose a bigger risk to insurers than climate change.
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CIO Interview: Conning worried the Fed is not paying enough attention to inflation
09 December 2024Insurance Asset Risk sat down with Cindy Beaulieu, Conning's CIO for North America, to discuss the recent presidential election, the effect a second Trump administration could have on insurers, and the prospects for asset classes and investment risk in 2025.
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Japan's insurers put their weight behind plan for an 'asset management nation'
04 December 2024Tokyo wants Japan to be a nation known for good asset management - a goal that its insurers manifestly desire too
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Til tech do us part - are AI investments a love story for the ages?
02 December 2024Tech stocks and related companies have had ups and downs, with disappoints, broken promises and a summer wobble - but is it love that's here to stay?
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Europe vs the US in 2025: Which is the better placed to boom?
27 November 2024"Lost decade" of poor European equities is over according to DWS's new global CIO, but US could be better placed for growth
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Green shoots for insurers' understanding of natural capital?
25 November 2024Comparisons between investors' grip on climate and biodiversity show there's plenty of areas in which to grow on the latter, but lessons and benefits can be taken from net-zero approaches
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Has ESG become the ugly duckling of sustainability?
21 November 2024Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's recent Responsible Investing for Insurers event discuss the difference between ESG and Impact Investing, as well as some of the challenges they are facing while building out their impact portfolios
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Insurance Asset Risk's RI For Insurers: planning and implementing transition strategy
19 November 2024Brendan Abadie, sustainable investments analyst, Phoenix Group, and Insurance Asset Risk staff writer Josh Adcock, were discussing financed emissions versus climate solution enablers, defining transition assets, and competing for assets with banks
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What does Trump's barnstorming victory mean for insurers?
13 November 2024CIOs Insurance Asset Risk spoke to in the run up to the election were right on the money when it came to predicting a Trump victory, but how can insurers and their asset managers prepare for his second stint at the White House?
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The meaning of responsible investing
12 November 2024As envisioned by insurers
- 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
- Insurers' unique position in the finances of climate risk
- S&P warns SII reforms could spur more private credit investments
- 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