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IAR Americas: Building bridges between public and private
25 October 2021Fireside chat with David Agnew, director of government affairs for Macquarie, and former director of intergovernmental affairs for President Obama
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Prudential versus accounting balance sheets - and their investment implications
21 October 2021Panellists tackle accounting and IBOR developments during the Insurance Asset Risk 2021 EMEA conference. Vincent Huck reports
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Road to sustainability not as straight as Route 66
18 October 2021The journey to sustainable investing will be longer and more arduous for US insurers than those in other geographies given the plethora of smaller, under-resourced companies in the country. Sarfraz Thind reports
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CIO interview: Illiquidity irrelevant, it's the complexity that matters
13 October 2021Anup Agarwal, CIO at Global Atlantic Financial Group, discusses trends in illiquid markets on the back of COVID-19, and why complexity is more important than illiquidity. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Inflation not as much of an issue as rates
12 October 2021Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk 2021 Americas discuss inflation risk, and their hope for a rise in rates. Vincent Huck reports
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IAR Americas: Post-pandemic investment lessons part II
07 October 2021Insurers discuss the growing importance of private markets in their portfolio at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2021 conference. Compiled by Abbie Wood.
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Fossilised investments
05 October 2021The US insurers' portfolios remain heavily skewed to oil, gas and coal assets. Even as the clamour for net-zero grows, where is the insurance business going with fossil fuels? Sarfraz Thind reports
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Comment: A good compromise is one where no one is happy
29 September 2021Carlos Montalvo Rebuelta analyses the European Commission's proposals for the Solvency II review, in particular those changes that have been flying under the radar of public debates.
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Real estate debt, not out of the woods yet
27 September 2021While real estate debt portfolios have performed well in the last 18 months, investors are acutely aware that their life support in the form of QE programmes is reaching its limit. So what next? Vincent Huck reports
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IAR Americas: Post-pandemic investment lessons
22 September 2021Insurers share their lessons from the pandemic and its impact on markets at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2021 conference. Compiled by Abbie Wood.
- CIO Interview: managing Europe's third largest general account
- Conning CEO on Generali's acquisition and AI in asset management
- Private credit beats PE for insurers' appetite for the first time in GSAM survey
- IAR Real Assets conference: "Solvency II UK reform is not a free lunch"
- News roundup: Insurance asset management
- On the merry-go-round of asset classes, with Generali Group's CIO Francesco Martorana
- Comment - How to find the alpha to omega of who runs investments at Chinese insurers
- Private debt at the forefront of insurers' continued advance into private markets
- Infrastructure is still a good investment for insurers looking for stability, but beware of nuanced risks
- Making real assets net-zero takes real scrutiny