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The CBIRC's legacy - a safe pair of hands for Chinese insurance regulation
14 March 2023The CBIRC is reportedly being dissolved and its duties transferred. David Walker finds an industry praising the modernising, improving impetus behind its work on C-ROSS Phase II, to benefit risk management and China's society more generally
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Europe's life giants trip the lite switch firmly 'on'
08 March 2023Thomas Buberl, and Oliver Bäte are men with a mission, to preach the gospel of low-capital product. But will their customers buy it? David Walker asks
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A career like a ski line
08 March 2023Insurance Asset Risk's young professional of the year 2023 recipient, Carly Segal, recounts what took her from the ski slopes of Vermont to the fixed income team at JPMAM in London. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Springing back to life - JGB yields help Japan's CIOs repatriate GAs
01 March 2023It's been an awfully long time coming, but yields on long-dated JGBs are becoming genuinely attractive to many Japanese CIOs - maybe for the first time in their careers, David Walker reports
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The rise of the chief liquidity officer?
28 February 2023Moving away from traditional assets has raised scrutiny of liquidity risk management. Is there a need for a chief liquidity officer? Sarfraz Thind reports
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Comment: NAIC's CLO Model - A communal path to policy design
22 February 2023By Amnon Levy and Brett Manning
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Oliver Bäte offers comfort, reassurance and hope
21 February 2023With Structured Alpha 'behind' it, Allianz is applying the lessons learned to best effect, it told analysts at this month's full-year results presentation. David Walker reports
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Insurers' investment risk 'in the raw' - laid bare in capital charge patterns
15 February 2023Some fairly simple maths reveals the average pre-diversified capital charge that CIOs across Europe paid for their general account investing in 2020 and 2021. David Walker dug out the data
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Comment - BMA picks up the 'big stick' for Bermuda's CIOs
13 February 2023The regulator's announcement on illiquids and alternatives was all-stick-no-carrot, but will the BMA bite not just bark, at CIOs?
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Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires? (Part 2)
08 February 2023A market view on ESG, by Corrado Pistarino, chief investment officer at Foresters Friendly Society
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