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Are insurers' outsourcing agreements contracts 'made in heaven'?
29 January 2024Investment management agreements lock in some tasty fees for managers signing on the dotted line, but insurance CIOs increasingly expect a wide scope of 'extras' to boot
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D&I isn't just for the 'woke' crowd
25 January 2024Andy Mason, head of active ownership at abrdn, explains why D&I at investee companies is a priority for an asset manager and how diversity helps companies' bottom lines
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PRT market records are there to be broken, but they are not a measure of success, L&G's Moret says
23 January 2024Dom Moret, head of origination and execution on the pension risk transfer team, takes Insurance Asset Risk behind the scenes of a record year in the pension risk transfer market at L&G
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Regulation and lack of council expertise is driving investment inequality in the UK
17 January 2024PIC's managing director, Hayley Rees, explains on behalf of the Purposeful Finance Commission how local council constraints and a complex planning regime have held back investment outside the UK capital
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Japan's fossil fuel puzzle
15 January 2024Japan's progress to sustainable investing has been a slow one. The country remains hampered by a largely fossil fuel-dependent economy, a puzzling challenge for insurers.
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Real estate opportunities await in 2024, M&G says
10 January 2024Jose-Luis Pellicer, global head of investment strategy at M&G Real Estate, discusses the outlook for the real estate market next year with Insurance Asset Risk, and explains the 'mindset shift' the sector needs
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Comment - How life insurers might respond to the IMF on private equity risks
08 January 2024The IMF listed various risks of growing PE involvement in the re/insurance industry
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Benign or bust - The outlook for 2024 is anything but boring
03 January 2024Decisions from central banks, political instability, regulatory changes - many of the threats posed by 2024 are out of insurer's hands
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A sense of doom and gloom greeted the arrival of 2023, but was it really as bad as expected?
01 January 2024Fixed income and sub-investment grade investments were key trends in a year that was not exactly benign
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IMF looks to ruin PE-insurer party
29 December 2023The International Monetary Fund has raised further warning flags on private equity-owned insurance businesses. At the heart of the concerns are the illiquid assets these insurers use which may lead to financial catastrophe, if the IMF is to be believed.
- Prudential appoints new group CIO from Goldman Sachs
- L&G signs private credit outsourcing deal with Blackstone
- Zurich and Amundi launch green bond fund
- From major regulators to major ratings agencies, funded re causes concern
- MA Investment Accelerator proposal on track for Q4
- Private credit appetite redefines asset owner/manager relationships
- Athora acquisition neutral to PIC's ratings, Fitch says
- M&G hires AllianzGI alum to head up impact investment arm
- Insurers' outsourced accounts triple proportion allocated to private markets over last decade, study finds
- Manulife IM reaches $1.1bn final close on Co-Investment Partners III fund