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Pain relief - Sellers of life back books find their remedy
04 August 2022Life CIOs once yearned for back book sales to reduce their yield-pain. But might higher interest rates do the same job, David Walker asks
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Real assets: the inflation hedge
02 August 2022Inflation 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
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Biodiversity: "A twin emergency next to climate change"
28 July 2022As 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
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Navigating the credit market
26 July 2022Panellists 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
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The US insurers' take on the net-zero journey
21 July 2022Net-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
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Us versus them: finding the balance between regulators and the industry's objectives
19 July 2022Are regulators the heroes, guarantors of policyholder protection, while insurers are the villains in search of investment return? Not quite, Abbie Wood finds out.
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The death of life insurance
13 July 2022They were the bane of life for many CIOs, but a rich source of outsourcing for asset managers. Are traditional life policies - and their challenges for investing - now dead? David Walker investigates
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An irreversible shift: Insurance investment adapts to a world of climate extremes
11 July 2022Tim Hodgson and Marisa Hallr consider how the need for sustainability and rejuvenation of our planet will impact insurers' investment purpose.
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IAR EMEA: Under the hood of ESG data
06 July 2022ESG data has become known as 'sustainable investing's main challenge', yet, while some insurance investors bemoan the lack of data, lack of quality of the available data, others say 'lets get on with it'. Abbie Wood reports
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Solving the 'cash-drag' problem
05 July 2022As low rates keep hitting lifers and claims inflation bites non-lifers, managers serving them tell David Walker a review can help decide whether strategic cash can be redeployed, for a more meaningful role
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