Analysis

• Convex surfing the volatility wave

  18 August 2022

  Theresa Patricios, head of investments at Convex, discusses the insurer's timely launch just before the pandemic and why it is uniquely placed to surf the current uncertainty in markets. Interview by Vincent Huck

  

• Swimming with sharks

  16 August 2022

  From the cut-throat trading floor of the 'King of Wall Street' to the slow-moving insurance investment industry, Rip Reeves, soon-to-retire CIO at AEGIS Insurance, reflects on his career, today's challenges for CIOs, and making the move from 'firstborn' to 'ugly offspring'. Interview by Vincent Huck

  

• Life stakeholders find reasons to sing and dance about back book deals

  11 August 2022

  Those evaluating and otherwise benefitting from back book sales - including asset managers - tell David Walker they like what they see

  

• The Evolving CLO Regulatory Landscape

  09 August 2022

  Amnon Levy looks at the changes to the treatment of CLOs that are being considered by the NAIC and insurance regulators and questions their risk profile against equally rated corporate bonds - how do their lifetime risks stack up?

  

• Pain relief - Sellers of life back books find their remedy

  04 August 2022

  Life CIOs once yearned for back book sales to reduce their yield-pain. But might higher interest rates do the same job, David Walker asks

  

• Real assets: the inflation hedge

  02 August 2022

  Inflation is eroding insurer portfolios and not much has worked to counter it. At Insurance Asset Risk's US webinar on real assets, panellists discussed the value of using these assets as an inflation hedge. Sarfraz Thind reports

  

• Biodiversity: "A twin emergency next to climate change"

  28 July 2022

  As insurers broaden their ESG universe outside of climate, biodiversity is starting to gain momentum in the spotlight.... But why has it taken so long for it to be recognised as a crisis? Abbie Wood asks

  

• Navigating the credit market

  26 July 2022

  Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's 2022 EMEA conference considered how best to navigate credit as an asset class in a challenging environment of increased inflation and interest rates. Abbie Wood reports

  

• The US insurers' take on the net-zero journey

  21 July 2022

  Net-zero is a worthy aspiration—but US insurers bemoan the lack of available data to pave the way to get there, during an Insurance Asset Risk webinar. Sarfraz Thind reports

  

• Us versus them: finding the balance between regulators and the industry's objectives

  19 July 2022

  Are regulators the heroes, guarantors of policyholder protection, while insurers are the villains in search of investment return? Not quite, Abbie Wood finds out.