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Allianz Life's CIO: from AGI to AI
21 June 2023Jean Roch Sibille sees the use of AI spilling over into the asset management world. But are machines ready to replace the CIO himself? Not just yet, he tells Sarfraz Thind
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Why ESG has insurers running in circles
19 June 2023Insurers at Insurance Asset Risk's EMEA 2023 conference took issue with the real impact - or lack thereof - that currently sustainability regulation and ESG reporting standards can actually have, finding that trying to compare their own progress or that of their investee companies can have them feeling trapped in a nightmare. Josh Adcock reports
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Allianz Life's CIO: from risk to return
13 June 2023Jean Roch Sibille moved from his CRO role at Allianz Life to take over the CIO mantle just over a year ago. He gives an insight into the firm's asset management strategy and working with some of the best investors on the street. Sarfraz Thind reports
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Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2023 conference round up
12 June 2023The conference was held in London on 12 June and highlighted the investment risks and opportunities facing insurers. Vincent Huck reports
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Where is the wind blowing?
08 June 2023The financial market is divided on the likelihood of a recession and the future direction of travel for interest rates. Josh Adcock reports
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HDI Global CIO faces inflation hedge conundrum
07 June 2023Thorsten Wölbern, CIO of HDI Global, the business insurance company of the Talanx Group, explains why inflation is top of his mind, why rates will go down again, and discusses the 'exotic' unexplored investment shores. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Comment - Do inflation-linked bonds cover the rate of 'claims inflation' in kidnapping ransoms?
05 June 2023The clouded world of insurance for the costs of ending kidnaps raises some intriguing questions
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The (very) fine art of triangulating investment risk, reward and Solvency II capital
31 May 2023Europe's CIOs are being challenged as never before to get investment and regulatory trade-offs right in portfolios. David Walker finds a tool built to help
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Equities exposures - feast, then famine, for Europe's CIOs
29 May 2023Whether they love them or hate them, Europe's CIOs hold shares, directly and in funds they came to about one-fifth of their GAs in Q3 2023. Appreciating or reviling the exposure may rather depend on the year, David Walker reports
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Italian CIOs welcome BTP yields rising - but maybe not their "exploding" - in 2022
24 May 2023While European CIOs welcomed debt yields heating up again in 2022, for Italians BTPs underwent a truly combustible expansion, David Walker finds
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