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Insurers have options against inflation, but concerns persist
06 October 2022Chief investment officers and chief risk officers should be worried about a potential stagflation, according to panellists at Insurance Risk & Capital Americas 2022, Vincent Huck reports.
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The gilts crisis roils markets
03 October 2022The UK government's disastrous foray into budget setting last week has been treated with dismay and disgust by market participants. Amid plunging sterling and soaring gilt yields can insurance investors hold on? Sarfraz Thind reports
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Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2022 conference round up
28 September 2022The conference was held in New York on 27 September and highlighted the pain ahead for insurance investors. Vincent Huck reports
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Solvency II review and the sustainability debate: old habits & new ideas
26 September 2022Carlos Montalvo Rebuelta looks at how sustainability could add purpose to the Insurance industry and why it's the stumbling block of the current Solvency II review
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DWS seeking solutions to APAC's next big challenge - funding retirements
21 September 2022As the APAC population ages, insurers, asset managers and governments are among those seeking solutions to an emerging challenge: funding retirement. DWS's Ellen Yang is working to bring reinsurers' balance sheet to that equation, for the benefit of all, she tells David Walker
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Arena Capital the smooth operator
19 September 2022High yield is usually associated with high risk. But Arena Capital is showing it need not be so—it has produced stellar returns for insurers in recent times and in doing so smoothed out some of the volatility associated with the asset class. Sarfraz Thind reports
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TC Wilson: the reluctant CIO
14 September 2022Never one to shirk a challenge, TC Wilson has gone from a finance sceptic to manage the funds for the US's largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer. He tells his story to Sarfraz Thind
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Do rising rates signal a volte-face by reinsurers on illiquid assets?
12 September 2022With RVS in Monte Carlo well underway, Abbie Wood spoke to industry experts to learn how rising interest rates could push reinsurers away from the illiquid assets from which they once sought yield... but not all the experts agree.
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At the ready - what APAC insurers should consider as new IFRS standards approach
12 September 2022Max Davies and Francisco Sebastian of Wellington Management discuss with David Walker how IFRS standards stand to affect insurers in APAC, and beyond, and the various aspects of their businesses underwriters should be considering, to best position themselves for the change
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The NAIC's alternative to agency ratings
07 September 2022Ahead of the end of the public comment period next week on potential changes to the NAIC's reliance on rating agencies, Amnon Levy and Bill Poutsiaka explore the implications of such changes for insurers
- CIO Interview: managing Europe's third largest general account
- Conning CEO on Generali's acquisition and AI in asset management
- Private credit beats PE for insurers' appetite for the first time in GSAM survey
- On the merry-go-round of asset classes, with Generali Group's CIO Francesco Martorana
- News roundup: Insurance asset management
- Private debt at the forefront of insurers' continued advance into private markets
- Infrastructure is still a good investment for insurers looking for stability, but beware of nuanced risks
- Insurers not holding managers to account on responsible investing, ShareAction finds
- Non-PE backed insurers feel pressure to compete with PE-backed firms
- Comment - What CIOs could learn from Japanese insurers - and Dolly Parton