Analysis

  • IAR EMEA: Private assets - yesterday's story?

    19 July 2023

    Eleanor Bucks, chief investment officer at Lloyd's of London, discusses the continued allure of private assets and market misconceptions at Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2023 conference

  • SunLife HK's CIO on IFRS, rate hikes, geopolitics, and exercising patience

    17 July 2023

    Shiuan Ting van Vuuren discusses why IFRS 17 & 9 implementation have been a challenging and ongoing journey, the impact of rising rates and increased geopolitical tensions, and why she is relaxed about regulatory changes. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Chart of the week -what equity sectors cause, and get hit by, crises and contagion?

    14 July 2023

    Researchers in Brazil analyse US markets from sub-prime to the COVID-19, via the 'Trump-effect'. They tell David Walker which sectors fared worst as Donald Trump rose to power? Was the AIG bail-out 'worth it'? And when it comes to crisis, 'will markets ever learn'?

  • Rising rates keep CIOs on their toes

    13 July 2023

    Inflation-fighting rate hikes in many economies have subtly, but significantly, affected investors' priorities, Insurance Asset Risk's 2023 EMEA conference heard last week. It remains hard to pick the likely trajectory, and appropriate reaction, as Josh Adcock reports

  • Zurich Hong Kong's GA - a ship nearly on autopilot

    12 July 2023

    Philipp Furrer, chief investment officer for Hong Kong and Singapore at Zurich, reveals why he sleeps very well at night. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • CIOs play the 'long game' - but even that harbours significant investment risks

    10 July 2023

    For long-term investors, as insurance CIOs like to see themselves, inflation and interest rates are short-term considerations, as Josh Adcock reports from Insurance Asset Risk's EMEA 2023 conference

  • Swiss Re's how to: 'value an anteater'

    05 July 2023

    From tigers to reefs to a coalpit's climate cost, actuaries are valuing some unexpected assets - and presenting findings in ways even UK politicians can grasp...David Walker reports.

  • Asia's CIOs face up to having to 'know it all'

    03 July 2023

    Insurance investors discuss the lessons learned from the last few years of severe volatility, and reveal what [Chat] 'GPT' actually stands for, at Insurance Asset Risk's Hong Kong Seminar 2023. Compiled by Vincent Huck

  • IAR EMEA audience dissatisfied with UK Solvency reform

    28 June 2023

    But panellists point to the positives of the reform to insurers' investments, as Vincent Huck reports

  • Green shoots appear for biodiversity investing - but is it the natural habitat for insurers?

    26 June 2023

    It seems like it's on everyone's lips, but where should investors start to think about biodiversity, when it comes to investing in positive-impact assets? Josh Adcock asks asset owners and managers where they see opportunities flourishing, and how to weed out the wrong strategies

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