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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.
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At the ready - what APAC insurers should consider as new IFRS standards approach
12 September 2022Max Davies and Francisco Sebastian of Wellington Management discuss with David Walker how IFRS standards stand to affect insurers in APAC, and beyond, and the various aspects of their businesses underwriters should be considering, to best position themselves for the change
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The NAIC's alternative to agency ratings
07 September 2022Ahead of the end of the public comment period next week on potential changes to the NAIC's reliance on rating agencies, Amnon Levy and Bill Poutsiaka explore the implications of such changes for insurers
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Biden's Infla... Investment Reduction Act?
05 September 2022The US Chamber of Commerce has criticised President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, warning that it will "discourage investments" and "undermine economic growth", but do the means justify the ends when it comes to ESG? Abbie Wood finds out
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Solvency II review rapporteur gets spiky with EIOPA
31 August 2022European members of parliament are back from their summer holidays, and there promises to be a heated debate on Solvency II before the review even goes to trilogue. Vincent Huck reports
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Hedge funds back in vogue
29 August 2022Derided for years by insurance investors, hedge funds are back in fashion. Could it be the revival of a beautiful friendship? Sarfraz Thind asks
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Investment horizon broadens in Asia as rates rise
25 August 2022As rates finally rise again, new investment opportunities are gradually re-opening for the region's CIOs, as David Walker finds out
- Insurers hopeful Solvency II LTE reform will unlock €100bn RE opportunity
- Expect NAIC to shift gears on RBC reform in 2026, Wellington Management says
- NAIC takes aim at insurer investment subsidiaries
- The savings illusion: why Europe needs investment, not deposits - and the insurers' role
- Solvency II changes a "meaningful step" for securitised assets' allure, S&P says
- Expect lower growth in 2026 - but AI bubble not about to burst, Aviva Investors says
- Generali's Infranity invests in Irish independent power producer
- Private credit: are headline news and underlying performance one and the same?
- Private credit: an evolution of skills, a revolution of relations
- Canada Life completes £330m buy-in with Comet pension scheme