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CIOs to fasten seatbelts for bumpy landing as Fed spots runway
13 September 2023"The Fed won't hike rates next week," former president of Kansas City Fed predicts. While asset owners are at odds on the likelihood of a recession and asset managers brace themselves for what will not be a "piece of (cheese)cake"
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Brookfield and insurance: a defence
11 September 2023Brookfield has been looking to carve out a name for itself in the insurance world. Even as the company gets assailed by a critics its path to growth remains undimmed.
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Brookfield: the alternative traditionalist
06 September 2023The influx of alternative managers into insurance has been one of the trends of the decade. Brookfield, which has scooped up three insurance mandates in the last 12 months, has a more conservative business model than many peers as Sachin Shah, chief executive of Brookfield Insurance Solutions, explains
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Smoke and mirrors exercise in assessing climate risk in sovereigns
04 September 2023NZAOA puts draft fourth edition of target-setting protocol up for public consultation
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Momentum rising on stewardship engagement with sovereigns
31 August 2023Thomas Dillon, head of sovereign ESG at Aviva Investors, discusses the lessons learned from the PRI's sovereign engagement on climate pilot initiatives, and the intricacies of engaging with finance ministers.
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Secret plans - CIOs reveal how market risk's SCR elements (should) develop in future
30 August 2023Insurance Risk Data has unearthed strategic data about how Europe's insurers expect the six sub-modules of their market risk SCR to evolve out to 2026. David Walker investigates
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Insurance asset managers keep out of blue bonds' murky waters... for now
28 August 2023Despite widespread praise of the recent Gabon blue bond transaction, AllianzGI and Axa IM reveal to Insurance Asset Risk why they ultimately didn't invest in it
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Smooth sailing for AllianzGI trade finance funds
23 August 2023David Newman, CIO for global high yield at AllianzGI, discusses how recent storms haven't rocked the boat of trade finance as an asset class.
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Are we there yet?
21 August 2023Central bank base rates continue to climb to decades-long highs over the summer, leaving market participants in a blur as to how far away the peak is
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Comment: Athora deputy CEO on weathering the storm
16 August 2023Michele Bareggi, president & deputy CEO at Athora Group, explains why investing in private markets combined with a robust investment risk framework is the key to weather the volatility storm
- M&G JV with Asian pension fund to invest £1bn in UK housing
- Insurance sector the "natural home" of productive assets, L&G says
- Barings acquires Sydney office building for AU $360m
- BoE zeroes in on private market risks to insurers and UK financial system
- Meiji Yasuda expands backing of regional revitalisation startup
- Chart of the Week - The rise and rise of (small) insurers investing in private assets
- Insurance Development Forum reaches first close on Infrastructure Resilience Development Fund
- Aviva Investors finances £175m loan for acquisition of central London property
- Private credit: the feel-good factor?
- Private credit: are headline news and underlying performance one and the same?