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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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Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires? (Part 1)
06 February 2023A market view on ESG, by Corrado Pistarino, chief investment officer at Foresters Friendly Society
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Case study: Gjensidige applies basic economics to net-zero
01 February 2023Norwegian insurer Gjensidige has been running an experimental portfolio attempting to reach carbon price neutrality. Their former CIO, now chairman of Gjensidige Pensjonsforsikring, and one of their investment analysts discuss the initial findings. Interview by Vincent Huck
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NZAOA expands target setting protocol to govvies and PE
31 January 2023Report authors Swiss Re's Bolli and Allianz IM's Riese discuss the key considerations of the protocol third edition. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Having fun with private equity investments
30 January 2023A small French mutual insurer tells Insurance Asset Risk how it has become one of the few insurers to make the most of the long-term equity rule in Solvency II... and how it had fun in the process. Vincent Huck reports
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Pension Insurance Corporation foray into infrastructure assets
25 January 2023From financing social housing to helping the London School of Economics build sustainably, to UK trainline rolling stock, PIC is full-steam ahead on debt investments, as Elizabeth Cain, head of debt origination there, explains to David Walker
- Outsourcing RT series: Part III, Outsourcing and private markets assets - a new world for outsourcing?
- Fraud worth JPY 3bn by ex-employees found at Prudential Holdings of Japan units
- Leverage and liquidity in private markets: The new frontier for evergreen funds
- Outsourcing RT series: Part IV, The future for outsourcing
- Something rotten in the state of US debt - Danes 'dump Trump'
- Chart of the Week - Buoyant markets predicted in APAC, having navigated 2025's storms
- Investment risk top of lifers' minds, but Fitch argues competitive pressure a greater concern
- Japan Post Insurance adopts global impact reporting standards
- Welcome back from the Christmas that changed everything
- AIG and asset manager CVC launch investment partnership