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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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Forward-thinking - what's on the mind of Teddy Au Yeung, China Taiping Life's CFO
04 May 2022From the reality of C-Ross Phase II to considering virtual reality for recruitment and claims assessment, Chinese CFOs have lots on their minds, as David Walker found out speaking with China Taiping Life's Teddy Au Yeung
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A match, a spark! - the MA ignites UK lifers' investment appetites
02 May 2022The MA has given UK lifers about £400bn of capital benefit since 2016 - and more fruitful use of it to invest in the real economy could yet come, if HM Treasury's proposals are enacted. David Walker investigates
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CFO interview: navigating China's regulatory and growth currents
29 April 2022As chief financial officer at AIA Life Insurance in China, Leo Ng is used to being the fastest-growing unit of the Australasian insurance giant. He tells David Walker of the opportunities, and challenges, in Mainland China.
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China's Insurance Industry (almost) in eight charts
27 April 2022David Walker draws on diverse data sources, to chart eight exhibits that give glimpse into the insurance industry of the world's most populous country and second largest economy
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Reasons to be cheerful as US CIOs doubly thankful for property's yield and inflation protection
25 April 2022Four Insurance CIOs describe at the Insurance Asset Risk 2022 real asset conference how they moved into real assets primarily for yield, but now see the asset class as a great hedge against inflation, too. Vincent Huck reports
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