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Insurance asset managers keep out of blue bonds' murky waters... for now
28 August 2023Despite widespread praise of the recent Gabon blue bond transaction, AllianzGI and Axa IM reveal to Insurance Asset Risk why they ultimately didn't invest in it
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Smooth sailing for AllianzGI trade finance funds
23 August 2023David Newman, CIO for global high yield at AllianzGI, discusses how recent storms haven't rocked the boat of trade finance as an asset class.
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Are we there yet?
21 August 2023Central bank base rates continue to climb to decades-long highs over the summer, leaving market participants in a blur as to how far away the peak is
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Comment: Athora deputy CEO on weathering the storm
16 August 2023Michele Bareggi, president & deputy CEO at Athora Group, explains why investing in private markets combined with a robust investment risk framework is the key to weather the volatility storm
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How to showcase the social value of buildings?
14 August 2023PIC's Cléo Fitzsimons and Charles Beard discusses the UK insurer's proprietary ESG scorecard for real estate investments across 65 KPIs.
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Blackstone: Size matters
09 August 2023No matter what they tell you, size is important in this world. And Blackstone is up there with the biggest. Its insurance group has tripled assets in five years—and it does not intend to stop there.
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IFRS 17: Are insurers ready for the same scrutiny they impose on their investees
07 August 2023New accounting standards, including IFRS 17, are seeking to standardise insurance accounting globally and better reflect insurers financial positions to their investors. But is their message loud, or more importantly, clear? David Walker examines
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Nassau on navigating a very volatile year
03 August 2023Nassau's CIO David Czerniecki has had his hands full this year with new acquisitions and steering through market volatility. He tells Sarfraz Thind about a busy 2023 so far.
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As of today, Earth's 2023 ecological budget is in deficit
02 August 2023On Earth Overshoot day, insurance asset managers warn of the threat resource wastes poses to the economy and society, while highlighting tremendous investment opportunities in the old game of supply and demand.
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'Discretion is the better part of valor,' at GIAM
31 July 2023Generali Insurance Asset Management CEO Bruno Servant and members of his team discuss the current market environment, and why caution is in order. Interview by Vincent Huck
- From major regulators to major ratings agencies, funded re causes concern
- Insurers' outsourced accounts triple proportion allocated to private markets over last decade, study finds
- Cathay Life commits $140m to three alternative investment structures
- Prudential appoints new group CIO from Goldman Sachs
- Aviva joins £200m deal to fund build-to-rent community in Birmingham
- Nippon Life puts GA behind start-up helping Japan's 2.3m foreign workers
- Axa plays CFO musical chairs
- La Caisse rejects UN allegation it participates in "economy of genocide"
- Barings invests $200m in Australian self-storage sector
- M&G hires AllianzGI alum to head up impact investment arm