Analysis

  • IAR EMEA 24 - Matching adjustment reform, big bang or damp squib?

    27 June 2024

    At 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

  • A Lasting legacy - How Medvida is still helping Spanish lifers shed unwanted backbooks

    26 June 2024

    Life consolidation and backbook deals may have hit hurdles in Germany, but in Spain Antonio Trueba, CEO of consolidator Medvida Partners paints a different picture

  • IAR EMEA 24: Buckle in for inflation and geopolitical bumpiness

    24 June 2024

    Conference panellists discussed the persistence of inflation and the power of political risk to surprise

  • COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Iberian peninsula where core fixed income is king

    21 June 2024

    High-grade corporates and debt, mainly local, were dislodged rarely by other investments in Spain's and Portugal's GAs last year

  • IAR Asia 2024: Are CIOs investors or ALM professionals?

    20 June 2024

    Two chief investment officers discuss their changing responsibilities in light of new regulation at Insurance Asset Risk Asia Conference

  • What can the next UK government offer insurers?

    19 June 2024

    The 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

  • The BPA sector is running hot - could anything slow this busy market down?

    17 June 2024

    Leading 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

  • Biomethane - the next big thing in European renewables, Mapfre says

    13 June 2024

    Spanish insurer is investing in biomethane plants across Spain and is even eyeing a second fund to further bolster its place in the burgeoning market

  • Fireside chat with Phoenix's Eakins: The days of insurance investments run by actuaries are gone

    12 June 2024

    Covering geopolitics, macro, AI and sustainability

  • Hong Kong insurers embrace prudence as RBC set to kick in

    11 June 2024

    And highlight areas of discussions with the regulator for future iteration of the regulation