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CIO interview: In praise of the grey hairs
24 April 2025In the second of this two part interview, Jelle van der Giessen reflects on his 10 year tenure as a CIO, what evolved and why the divorce between insurers and in-house asset managers needs to happen.
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When Lloyd's syndicates go investing, past patterns may not reflect future plans
23 April 2025If the image of Lloyd's syndicates conjures up 'uniformly conservative' investors, then key outsourcing partners to the market tell David Walker, a 'rethink' may be in order
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RE debt investors watchword for 2025?: 'Uncertainty'
21 April 2025Audience at Insurance Asset Risk's Investing in Real Assets Conference 2025 in London hears that tentative RE rebound has stalled - thanks to geopolitics
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How to make infrastructure investments in an over saturated market? Diversify!
17 April 2025Emerging markets are an increasingly wise prospect, IAR's recent Investing in Real Asset Conference in London has heard
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Japanese lifers looking for a beacon in the equity markets storm
16 April 2025With trade wars sending markets haywire, and equities being the highest risk in insurers' investment portfolios, investment and risk teams are holding firm, in the hope of a window of blue sky
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Downturn will reveal who has been swimming naked in private markets, CIO of Convex says
14 April 2025David Dowsett, chief investment officer at Convex Insurance, sat down with Insurance Asset Risk, in a week that saw a market meltdown induced by President Trump's short-lived plan for global tariffs.
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CIO Interview: From oil driller to sustainable chief investment officer
10 April 2025Retiring NN chief investment officer Jelle van der Giessen reflects on his 30-year career
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'Real' wars, and trade wars, keep geopolitics high on Lloyd's syndicates' risk-radars
09 April 2025Conflict and resulting turbulence seem to beset all aspects of the 'world order', much to the ongoing dismay of syndicates, David Walker reports
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Future looked murky, investors say - even before Trump tariffs
07 April 2025Speakers at Insurance Asset Risk's recent Investing in Real Assets conference in London warned that mixed messaging from the White House and the Federal Reserve was creating headaches for investors
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Conning maps out landscape and attractions of esoteric ABS for insurers
03 April 2025From music royalties to container leases, data centres to aircraft leases, esoteric ABS has something to offer every insurer
- BaFin warns of credit risks as private debt holdings approach 30% at some insurers
- Having a word with Phoenix Group CIO, Mike Eakins
- Chart of the Week - European CFOs' ongoing appetite for private markets investments
- Manulife IM appoints global head and CIO of agriculture
- Investors face US dollar currency risk, AllianzGI says
- EM Corporate Debt: An Underappreciated Opportunity for Insurers?
- L&G makes $50m private credit investment in Icelandic renewable power firm
- Lloyd's syndicates ventured 'beyond the core' in 2024
- Sompo AM reshuffles senior roles from New York to London
- APAC Weekly - NFRA head and other Chinese heavy-hitters vow to fight Trump's tariff war