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BPA market steamrolls through 2024, but where's the drama?
06 January 2025UK PRT market volume is expected to settle around the £45bn mark, L&G's latest Endgame report suggests, but are pension schemes finding it increasingly difficult to catch insurer's eyes?
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the riskier of them all?
01 January 2025CIOs from Hong Kong to New York and London to Bermuda, share the top risks on their mind
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Debunking the myths of EMD
30 December 2024Insurance Asset Risk discussed with Matthew Smith and Brett Diment of abrdn why insurers are still reluctant to invest in emerging market debt
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How is time changing insurers appetite for private assets?
25 December 2024Matthew Bass, head of private alternatives at AllianceBernstein (AB), discusses with Insurance Asset Risk the trends in the private asset space, insurer's changing tastes and his predictions for 2025.
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Exploring the demand in affordable housing
23 December 2024Mike Lohmeier, chief investment officer at IMPACT Community Capital, explains the current state of play in affordable housing investments in the US, and compares it to other real estate asset classes
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Moody's downgrade of France, the more things change the more they stay the same
18 December 2024Insurers and their asset managers react to the ramifications of the rating change going forward
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Insurers are picking up banks' fossil fuel financing slack
16 December 2024Rainforest Action Network says there is a "shocking lack of transparency about what insurers are underwriting and investing in"
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Does a litigious society pose a greater risk to insurers than global warming?
12 December 2024Insurance Asset Risk recently sat down with Chin Liu, director of insurance-linked securities (ILS), fixed income solutions and responsible investment research at Amundi US to discuss why ILS can be a good investment for life insurers and why eagle-eyed lawyers can pose a bigger risk to insurers than climate change.
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CIO Interview: Conning worried the Fed is not paying enough attention to inflation
09 December 2024Insurance Asset Risk sat down with Cindy Beaulieu, Conning's CIO for North America, to discuss the recent presidential election, the effect a second Trump administration could have on insurers, and the prospects for asset classes and investment risk in 2025.
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Japan's insurers put their weight behind plan for an 'asset management nation'
04 December 2024Tokyo wants Japan to be a nation known for good asset management - a goal that its insurers manifestly desire too
- Chart of the Week - The importance of investing in UK asset-intensive reinsurance deals
- Annuity and private markets boom at L&G, as CIO eyes defence stocks
- It will take more than Solvency tweaks to mobilise capital in UK plc
- Market predictions for 2025 largely reversed already, Muzinich and Co says
- Australians place their bets on climate change's likely trajectory
- DEI is all about valuing staff, and driving earnings at APAC insurers
- Japan Post Insurance eyes bond investments using credit default swaps
- CNP Assurances commits to FSC Certification for all its forests by 2030
- China Life advocates solvency and ratings benefits for insurers buying into VC
- Mirova takes €50m majority stake in EV charging business