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Insurance Asset Risk Americas: Regulatory Risk
18 October 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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Insurance Asset Risk's Responsible Investing for Insurers conference round up
16 October 2023The conference was held in London on 16 October and highlighted the challenges and dilemmas insurers face in building and implementing sustainable investment strategies
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Volatility blows in Outsourced CIO sails
11 October 2023The outsourcing chief investment officer world sometimes goes under the radar. Mercer's co-head of US insurance, Chris Tschida, explains how the OCIO giant works its magic and why its advice is needed now more than ever.
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Designing natural capital funds for insurers' investment needs
09 October 2023Launched in 2020, Climate Asset Management designed two strategies one of which is focused on sourcing natural capital investment opportunities for insurers. Megan Reilly Cayten, senior investment manager, explains what the fund invests in, and why it has been more successful with European insurers than US ones.
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Opportunities galore for US CIOs, but worries of what's coming call for caution
04 October 2023Chief investment officers at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference said investment opportunities had quadrupled compared to previous years, but diversification and flight to quality remains the game in town
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Are utilities a more risky business than investors think?
02 October 2023With recent turbulence in the water utilities sector, the traditional image of utilities as low-risk, highly regulated and stable assets may have been upended - but do insurers still view the sector as a safe bet?
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Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference round up
26 September 2023The conference was held in New York on 26 September and highlighted key opportunities in private markets as well as challenges in the regulatory space
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Bought-into the PRT market hype?
25 September 2023Pension risk transfers in the US have seen record years, a trend set to continue in 2023. Aon senior partner Ari Jacobs discusses the drivers for that boom.
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Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) KPIs for Alternative Investments under SFDR
21 September 20232023 has been an extremely important year for Article 4 SFDR investors in the EU such as life insurers, pension funds or alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs). They were required to publish the first Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) statement for the reference year in 2022 no later than 30 June 2023 so that now you have a lot to read on their websites.
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"The Fed's medicine is working"
18 September 2023Ahead of his intervention at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference, Thomas Holzheu, chief economist Americas, deputy head of group economic research and strategy at Swiss Re, discusses the macro-economic and geopolitical outlook.
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