Analysis

  • CIO Interview: Elo's Jonna Ryhänen

    11 September 2024

    Jonna Ryhänen has been CIO at Elo, one of Finland's largest pension insurance companies, since December of last year. Working out of Elo's HQ in Espoo, Finland's second city, Ryhänen took on a portfolio with assets under management worth around €30bn.

  • Illiquidity in Bermudian investment portfolios

    09 September 2024

    Bermudian groups' fair value hierarchies in 2023 analysed by Insurance Risk Data

  • Private market impact investing is no longer a PE, EM game

    04 September 2024

    Managers highlight impact opportunities in private credit and say blended finance is no longer the only way

  • Interview: Phoenix/Schroders JV - playing the trend

    02 September 2024

    Sam Tufts, head of strategy and solutions in the asset management team at Phoenix, discusses the joint venture with Schroders, its objectives and how it will work in practice

  • Comment: A new dawn in investment oversight: An update from the 2024 NAIC summer meeting

    28 August 2024

    Amnon Levy describes recent developments at the NAIC to modernize investment oversight

  • Trends in insurance are feeding into consolidation moves in asset management

    26 August 2024

    Moody's senior vice president Benjamin Serra discusses the latest trends in insurance and asset management and how they feed into each other

  • Did the Fed miss a trick?

    21 August 2024

    Headaches at the Fed and what they mean for insurers

  • Insurance and asset management - a marriage of convenience?

    19 August 2024

    Insurance Asset Risk analyses recent consolidations and sell-offs of AM units at European insurers

  • Overdue, healthy, market correction suggest overblown fear of recession

    14 August 2024

    The recent market correction has been a healthy one that's shaken markets out of their complacency, according to Zurich, and the environment is still supportive of investment in US equities - as long as volatility doesn't stay for too long

  • Battery energy storage: Is it ready for primetime?

    12 August 2024

    Insurers seem split on if the time is right to invest in battery energy storage, or if the risks are still too great