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Investment opportunities amid the gloom
12 October 2022The outlook may not be rosy for the coming months, but insurers believe investment opportunities are still there for those who know where to look. Vincent Huck reports
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Regulatory developments in the US and investment implications for insurers
10 October 2022Insurers discuss a number of NAIC initiatives past and present and how these could impact the way they invest. Vincent Huck reports
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Insurers have options against inflation, but concerns persist
06 October 2022Chief investment officers and chief risk officers should be worried about a potential stagflation, according to panellists at Insurance Risk & Capital Americas 2022, Vincent Huck reports.
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The gilts crisis roils markets
03 October 2022The UK government's disastrous foray into budget setting last week has been treated with dismay and disgust by market participants. Amid plunging sterling and soaring gilt yields can insurance investors hold on? Sarfraz Thind reports
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Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2022 conference round up
28 September 2022The conference was held in New York on 27 September and highlighted the pain ahead for insurance investors. Vincent Huck reports
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Solvency II review and the sustainability debate: old habits & new ideas
26 September 2022Carlos Montalvo Rebuelta looks at how sustainability could add purpose to the Insurance industry and why it's the stumbling block of the current Solvency II review
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DWS seeking solutions to APAC's next big challenge - funding retirements
21 September 2022As the APAC population ages, insurers, asset managers and governments are among those seeking solutions to an emerging challenge: funding retirement. DWS's Ellen Yang is working to bring reinsurers' balance sheet to that equation, for the benefit of all, she tells David Walker
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Arena Capital the smooth operator
19 September 2022High yield is usually associated with high risk. But Arena Capital is showing it need not be so—it has produced stellar returns for insurers in recent times and in doing so smoothed out some of the volatility associated with the asset class. Sarfraz Thind reports
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TC Wilson: the reluctant CIO
14 September 2022Never one to shirk a challenge, TC Wilson has gone from a finance sceptic to manage the funds for the US's largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer. He tells his story to Sarfraz Thind
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Do rising rates signal a volte-face by reinsurers on illiquid assets?
12 September 2022With RVS in Monte Carlo well underway, Abbie Wood spoke to industry experts to learn how rising interest rates could push reinsurers away from the illiquid assets from which they once sought yield... but not all the experts agree.
- Comment: Insurers at the centre of pension de-risking's capital market shift
- Munich Re calls for "more pragmatic" regulatory approach to asset classification
- Insurance asset managers eye more risk taking in next 12 months
- Bringing structured private credit to European insurers
- Swiss Life sells petrol station property in north of England
- Comment - Will Japanese couples stop giving birth to enough insurance CIOs?
- Royal London completes largest BPA deal to date
- Resolution Life seals $1bn block reinsurance deal in Hong Kong
- Japan Post Insurance doubles investments in private property fund since July
- Chart of the Week - DAV considers the best pension system, as Germany's demographic pyramid develops a 'bulging midriff'