Analysis

• Thoughts from a CRO: the problem with CLOs

  17 April 2023

  Will the push into leverage now come back and bite the insurance investors who have been stocking up on CLOs and private credit? Quite possibly, according to Nick Silitch, ex-CRO of Prudential Financial.

  

• CIOs face up to 'the day after the night before'

  12 April 2023

  The prolonged low-rates environment meant good times for real assets, and those borrowing to buy them. But as David Walker discovers, even good times must end

  

• Proposed Dutch rent regulation lacks sustainability weighting, NN Group says

  10 April 2023

  Plans to extend rent control regulation to the mid-market might seem helpful to Dutch citizens in want of more affordable housing, but it might have a chilling effect on investments into the market, Josh Adcock reports

  

• Old dog, new(ish) tricks? Lloyd's CIOs get all esoteric

  05 April 2023

  Lloyd's syndicates have held onto non-mainstream investments even as yields have risen - with some mixed results, David Walker finds

  

• Lloyd's of London playing the oldest trick in the book

  03 April 2023

  The insurance market's first CIO, Eleanor Bucks, describes her responsibilities and the 'why' and 'how' of the first fund in its newly-formed investment platform. Interview by Vincent Huck

  

• IAR investing in real assets conference 2023 roundup

  28 March 2023

  Panellists discuss the secular macro and geopolitical trends affecting their investment decisions in real assets

  

• The many forking paths in Asia's net-zero transition

  27 March 2023

  Financing the energy transition across Asia is often described as one uniform path whose trajectory differs from Europe's and North America's due to APAC's fossil fuel reliance. But there may be as many paths taken within APAC as there are nations involved, David Walker finds

  

• Insurers caught up in the Swiss bad apple

  22 March 2023

  The bad news seeping out of the US in the wake of SVB was magnified this month by the fall of Credit Suisse. The damage to insurers' portfolios to this once august banking institution is for now not too bad. Could there be worse to come? Sarfraz Thind reports

  

• The return to the promised land

  20 March 2023

  After a decade of eking out pitiful returns on their traditional fixed income assets insurers are finally seeing the return of higher interest rates. Will this herald a shift out of risky assets? A recent publication by the NAIC outlines the possibilities. Sarfraz Thind reports

  

• Global Atlantic's CIO talks shop

  15 March 2023

  Anup Agarwal, CIO, explains why Global Atlantic does not support US insurance regulators proposed changes on structured assets' capital charges calibrations. Interview by Sarfraz Thind