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Comment - Do inflation-linked bonds cover the rate of 'claims inflation' in kidnapping ransoms?
05 June 2023The clouded world of insurance for the costs of ending kidnaps raises some intriguing questions
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The (very) fine art of triangulating investment risk, reward and Solvency II capital
31 May 2023Europe's CIOs are being challenged as never before to get investment and regulatory trade-offs right in portfolios. David Walker finds a tool built to help
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Equities exposures - feast, then famine, for Europe's CIOs
29 May 2023Whether they love them or hate them, Europe's CIOs hold shares, directly and in funds they came to about one-fifth of their GAs in Q3 2023. Appreciating or reviling the exposure may rather depend on the year, David Walker reports
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Italian CIOs welcome BTP yields rising - but maybe not their "exploding" - in 2022
24 May 2023While European CIOs welcomed debt yields heating up again in 2022, for Italians BTPs underwent a truly combustible expansion, David Walker finds
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The US battles against ESG
22 May 2023US climate change politics have hit a turning point. What started off as mild disgruntlement against woke investing now looks to have turned into an all-out war by right-leaning states against climate siders. It is enough to make the head spin. Sarfraz Thind reports
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US debt ceiling drama strikes again
18 May 2023Grubby politics are again featuring as the spoiler for financial market equilibrium. The US debt ceiling standoff seems to be an annual affair—but this one looks a lot more serious than those in the past. Sarfraz Thind reports
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Benelux insurers' investment capital bills gyrate, in time with markets, in 2022
18 May 2023Some insurers faced triple-digit hikes in interest rates SCRs as equities and spread risks dramatically gave way, David Walker reports
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CNP Assurances' philosophy of 'investing meaningfully'
17 May 2023In the third and final part of this series, chief investment officer Olivier Guigné discusses the French insurer's approach to sustainability investing and why biodiversity needs to become an economic necessity. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Northern exposure - equities bestow mixed blessings on Nordic/Scandinavian insurers in 2022
15 May 2023Markets may have dived as rates, geopolitical tension and inflation rocketed, but Scandinavian and Nordic insurers' faith in equities was not always misplaced. David Walker reports
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Investing made simpler, in a more complex world, at CNP Assurances
10 May 2023In the second of this three-part interview, chief investment officer Olivier Guigné discusses the current investment landscape for insurers, and where CNP Assurances sees opportunities going froward. Interview by Vincent Huck
- Prudential appoints new group CIO from Goldman Sachs
- L&G signs private credit outsourcing deal with Blackstone
- 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
- Zurich and Amundi launch green bond fund
- M&G hires AllianzGI alum to head up impact investment arm
- Axa plays CFO musical chairs
- Axa IM Alts gets thumbs up for 46-storey City of London office development
- Cathay Life commits $140m to three alternative investment structures
- MA Investment Accelerator proposal on track for Q4