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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
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Getting real about sustainable assets?
09 May 2023Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's real asset conference 2023 debunk the idea of a 'greenium' and praise a widening of the real asset sustainability investment universe. Josh Adcock reports.
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The sun shines again on Spanish general accounts
08 May 2023As fixed income yields rise, Spanish insurers' CIOs may reflect happily on their 76% weighting to fixed interest interests - and smile again, David Walker writes
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Bolting for the door - could 'mass lapse' risk trigger 'mass bond sales' at French lifers?
04 May 2023Better interest rates mean better investment options than life policies. As France's exposed lifers watch on, some count up their liquid assets, some count on customer loyalty - but will all ultimately count on CIOs, to sell off GAs? David Walker reports
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CNP Assurances in praise of an "all-terrain" investment strategy
03 May 2023Chief investment officer Olivier Guigné, winner of this year's CIO of the year award from Insurance Asset Risk, talks macro economy, why no single scenario should now dominate a CIO's thinking, and why 2023 will be good for credit analysts - but bad for 'zombies'. Interview by Vincent Huck
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How best to describe a stuff-up? SFCR writers confront Whitehall's gilts-storm
01 May 2023Remember, remember the 23rd of September - when gilt yields exploded, without a mote of gunpowder in sight. David Walker reads how UK insurers revisited the scene in their SFCRs
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How the matching adjustment has 'misfired' at many Spanish lifers
27 April 2023The MA has saved UK lifers truly vast sums of Solvency II capital. In Spain it's delivered some very mixed outcomes, David Walker reports.
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The real estate crisis is coming
26 April 2023Stephen Quazzo, chief executive of real estate investment boutique Pearlmark, tells Sarfraz Thind that it is only be a matter of time before the bubble pops.
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To go short or to go long? That is the question on CIOs' minds
24 April 2023Unlike previous years where CIOs focused on capital preservation and the hunt for yield, 2023 will be marked by a focus on managing volatility and the duration gap.
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German life CIOs breath out, as the 'great ZZR unwind' begins
19 April 2023In past years, German lifers dispatched CIOs to raise cash to pay into their ZZRs - like it, or not. But that reversed, and sometimes heftily, as interest rates rose in 2022. David Walker reports
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