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Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2022 Conference round up
13 June 2022The conference was held in London on 13 June and highlighted how investment opportunities still abound for insurers in an environment of heightened volatility and a bleak macro outlook for the coming months. Vincent Huck reports
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CIO interview: Tweaks around the margins in times of volatility
08 June 2022David Czerniecki, chief investment officer at Nassau Financial Group, in the second part of a two-part interview, discusses the current environment of inflation, rising rates and a potential recession, and how these impact today's investment decisions
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From Lincoln to COVID - Insurance investing is a long-term game
06 June 2022David Czerniecki, chief investment officer at Nassau Financial Group, discusses in the first part of a two-part interview, his focus since joining the group in 2019, and how to hold your breath through a global pandemic.
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From Goldman Sachs point of view....
31 May 2022Mike Siegel, global head of Goldman Sachs Insurance Asset Management, discusses the acquisition of NN IP - the single largest acquisition Goldman Sachs has made since 2000. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Putin rams spanner into 2022's recovery
25 May 2022Late last year Generali predicted that "our social and economic lives will slowly normalise in 2022", and described the threat of stagflation as "overrated". Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February scuppered any chance of that normalisation.
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Stomaching volatility
24 May 2022Volatility, volatility everywhere and not a time to think. Guardian Life's CIO, Jean LaTorre, is dealing with what could be an unprecedented year of market storms, just two years into the job. Sarfraz Thind reports
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Fossil remains - why coal, oil and gas are still insurers' 'dirty little secret'
19 May 2022Whisper it quietly, but old energy investments may have been a dividend-godsend to many CIOs starved of yield elsewhere, David Walker discovers
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The tumultuous energy transition
16 May 2022Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy is a transition filled with tumult as investors are mired in questions of renewable capabilities and 'just transitions', the audience at Insurance Asset Risk Real Asset 2022 conference hears. Abbie Wood reports
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The pain in Spain
11 May 2022MedVida offers remedy to low yields and high life-book promises as it aims to be 'cornerstone consolidator' in Spanish market, David Walker reports.
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Winds of war prove further tailwinds for Generali Global Infrastructure
09 May 2022The task Generali set itself to help 'rebuild Europe' after COVID-19, focused mainly on infrastructure, has arguably taken on extra importance - and opportunity - David Walker discovers
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