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Round the World with SFCRs - Italy's lapse risk shows no sign of surrendering
03 June 2024A lot of Italians holding life policies made for the exit, early, in 2022, and the pressure on lifers seemed not to ease much in 2023
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Exploring the wild new world of real estate
29 May 2024Andrew Angeli, global head of real estate research & strategy at Zurich, discusses how changes in demographic and consumer expectations give rise to a new real estate sector
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CIO Interview: Pre-determined green target setting can be dangerous, AG Insurance's Wim Vermeir says
27 May 2024Insurance Asset Risk sits down to talk with AG Insurance's veteran CIO Wim Vermeir about green targets and the perils of investing in new technology
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CIO Interview: Managing China's slowdown in the Asian region
23 May 2024Christian Choi, regional director for ALM, investment & capital management at Ageas Asia, discusses the insurer's set-up in the region, what it invests in, and why US elections could be 'bad or very bad' for the region's outlook
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Round the World with SFCRs - Lapse risk endures in France as life clients spy 'greener grass'
20 May 2024The risk of customers leaving early remains at French lifers, despite rates softening in 2023, keeping CIOs on alert
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Curious and curiouser - the quirky and weird risks, that Lloyd's syndicate CIOs are backing
15 May 2024Got a satellite, a nuclear reactor, a Degas, or a body part to insure? A Lloyd's syndicate will do that - and back the risk in its GA. David Walker peers inside Lloyd's cabinet of insured curiosities
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From khaki to green: How are insurer's approaching investing in newer renewables technologies?
13 May 2024From biogas to battery storage to hydrogen, new technologies in the renewables sector are plentiful, but when is the right time to invest?
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Core competency - Lloyd's syndicates go outsourcing, and not just for peripheral assets
08 May 2024Lloyd's syndicates hire external help for the core of their general accounts, even if delegating makes more headlines when non-mainstream assets are involved
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Blending art and science to build investment risk frameworks at Enstar
06 May 2024Roman Halfin, investment risk officer at Enstar, explains why non-economic risks have overtaken economic ones in 2024 and how he contributes to the US insurer's investment decisions process
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CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'
02 May 2024In severe 'Nat Cat years' before 2023, CIOs at Lloyd's acted as 'cash registers', disgorging cash to meet steep property claims. Last year, a 'break in the weather' let them 'take stock', and many seized that 'down-time' to progress climate-investing with managers and funds
- Outsourcing RT series: Part III, Outsourcing and private markets assets - a new world for outsourcing?
- Fraud worth JPY 3bn by ex-employees found at Prudential Holdings of Japan units
- Leverage and liquidity in private markets: The new frontier for evergreen funds
- Outsourcing RT series: Part IV, The future for outsourcing
- Something rotten in the state of US debt - Danes 'dump Trump'
- Investment risk top of lifers' minds, but Fitch argues competitive pressure a greater concern
- Japan Post Insurance adopts global impact reporting standards
- Welcome back from the Christmas that changed everything
- Chart of the Week - Buoyant markets predicted in APAC, having navigated 2025's storms
- Aviva completes £4m buy-in with The Finnair Oyj Retirement Benefit Scheme