Analysis

  • BPA market steamrolls through 2024, but where's the drama?

    06 January 2025

    UK 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?

  • Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the riskier of them all?

    01 January 2025

    CIOs from Hong Kong to New York and London to Bermuda, share the top risks on their mind

  • Debunking the myths of EMD

    30 December 2024

    Insurance Asset Risk discussed with Matthew Smith and Brett Diment of abrdn why insurers are still reluctant to invest in emerging market debt

  • How is time changing insurers appetite for private assets?

    25 December 2024

    Matthew 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.

  • Exploring the demand in affordable housing

    23 December 2024

    Mike 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

  • Moody's downgrade of France, the more things change the more they stay the same

    18 December 2024

    Insurers and their asset managers react to the ramifications of the rating change going forward

  • Insurers are picking up banks' fossil fuel financing slack

    16 December 2024

    Rainforest Action Network says there is a "shocking lack of transparency about what insurers are underwriting and investing in"

  • Does a litigious society pose a greater risk to insurers than global warming?

    12 December 2024

    Insurance 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.

  • CIO Interview: Conning worried the Fed is not paying enough attention to inflation

    09 December 2024

    Insurance 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.

  • Japan's insurers put their weight behind plan for an 'asset management nation'

    04 December 2024

    Tokyo wants Japan to be a nation known for good asset management - a goal that its insurers manifestly desire too