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How can insurers take advantage of banks retreating from private assets?
15 November 2023Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 discussed the virtues of investing in private assets, as well as the importance of portfolio diversification
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Opportunities exist in CRE - even if offices face a GFC-style crisis
13 November 2023Panellists at the Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference discuss the current environment in CRE, and the inevitable crisis faced by the office sector
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An ex-Fed head preaches calmness in times of trouble
09 November 2023Thomas Sullivan, ex-Federal Reserve senior associate director, says macro risk is the biggest worry for insurance markets right now. But regulators should not be stymying investment innovation
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Caught between responsible investing and fiduciary duty?
08 November 2023Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's Responsible Investing for Insurers 2023 conference debated the duty of insurers to make sustainability and ESG a priority, as well as the unknown value of doing so
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Distilling complexity for CIOs' benefit
06 November 2023Various pressures have come to bear on insurance CIOs in recent years - and not always because of mercurial investment markets. Schroders' Alberto Scarsini distils the challenges to find the basic elements
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Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference: Regulatory risk
01 November 2023Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 discuss potential regulatory changes on the horizon, and what actions insurers are taking to prepare and ready their portfolios in response
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Alternatives on the mind
31 October 2023Mercer has been developing the alternatives bucket for its smaller US insurer clients. It has also been looking to assist with ESG goals. So far, however, its clients have shown more ambition than action as the company's co-head of US insurance, Chris Tschida, explaines
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Revisiting liquidity risk in times of high interest rates and banking failures
30 October 2023Panellists at Insurance Risk and Capital Bermuda 2023 conference discuss their approach to liquidity risk as regulatory scrutiny increases and market volatility provides challenges
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Hydrogen on the way up?
25 October 2023Insurers and their asset managers are taking tentative steps into the world of green hydrogen investing to capture a first mover premium and shore up net-zero strategies. But what's holding insurers back from flying away with the gas?
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In the Know - Schroders' Alberto Scarsini
23 October 2023A background rooted firmly in the world of insurers and their investing habits has equipped Alberto Scarsini very well indeed, for advising EMEA and global insurers, at the asset manager Schroders, as David Walker discovers
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