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Winds of war prove further tailwinds for Generali Global Infrastructure
09 May 2022The task Generali set itself to help 'rebuild Europe' after COVID-19, focused mainly on infrastructure, has arguably taken on extra importance - and opportunity - David Walker discovers
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Forward-thinking - what's on the mind of Teddy Au Yeung, China Taiping Life's CFO
04 May 2022From the reality of C-Ross Phase II to considering virtual reality for recruitment and claims assessment, Chinese CFOs have lots on their minds, as David Walker found out speaking with China Taiping Life's Teddy Au Yeung
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A match, a spark! - the MA ignites UK lifers' investment appetites
02 May 2022The MA has given UK lifers about £400bn of capital benefit since 2016 - and more fruitful use of it to invest in the real economy could yet come, if HM Treasury's proposals are enacted. David Walker investigates
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CFO interview: navigating China's regulatory and growth currents
29 April 2022As chief financial officer at AIA Life Insurance in China, Leo Ng is used to being the fastest-growing unit of the Australasian insurance giant. He tells David Walker of the opportunities, and challenges, in Mainland China.
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China's Insurance Industry (almost) in eight charts
27 April 2022David Walker draws on diverse data sources, to chart eight exhibits that give glimpse into the insurance industry of the world's most populous country and second largest economy
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Reasons to be cheerful as US CIOs doubly thankful for property's yield and inflation protection
25 April 2022Four Insurance CIOs describe at the Insurance Asset Risk 2022 real asset conference how they moved into real assets primarily for yield, but now see the asset class as a great hedge against inflation, too. Vincent Huck reports
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Allianz sees promise, in a life of less promises
22 April 2022Once, lifers gave CEOs headaches and ate up their capital. But now, David Walker finds, it's their CEOs hungry for more, in a 'capital-lite' world
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'R': the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything (insurance)?
20 April 2022Two economists disagree on current levels of recessionary risk during the Insurance Asset Risk 2022 Real Assets conference. Vincent Huck reports
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Ratings agencies have 'positive outlook' on China's C-Ross Phase II
18 April 2022Fitch and Moody's tell David Walker Phase II new rules may lower average solvency ratios, but they will lift risk- and capital management, including for investments, at insurers
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Lloyd's syndicates reveal investment fortunes - or lack thereof - in 2021
13 April 2022From low rates to rising inflation, ESG to net zero, syndicates' CIOs have their hands full in 2022. David Walker reports
- Winners of the 2024 Insurance Asset Risk awards
- US life/health insurers increasingly outsourced asset management from 2016-2022, AM Best says
- Alternative insights, for insurance CIOs
- Looking for a home for natural capital in insurers' investment portfolios
- Aviva Investors appoints head of insurance solutions
- Solvency UK reforms will not be a revolution, but a soft evolution, PIC's CIO Rob Groves says
- US BPA market volume could reach $100bn in the next five years, Legal & General Retirement America says
- Mutual gain - how the worlds of 'alts' and insurers can benefit both parties
- Dai-ichi Life makes two impact investments in medical sector
- Tokio Marine vows to "eliminate" cross-shareholdings