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Maintaining stability in an unstable world
01 August 2024Andy Kleeman, senior managing director and co-head of private fixed income for Sun Life Capital Management, discusses some of the interesting new developments in the investment grade private credit space.
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APAC Weekly - What Japan's insurers are about to learn, from Robert the Bruce and a spider
30 July 2024In Japan both lifers and general insurers are facing monumental changes from unwinds of strategic investments underway
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Double act part 2: Do insurers need to start reassessing their liabilities versus assets position as rates stay higher for longer?
29 July 2024AllianceBernstein's new CIO for insurance, Geoff Cornell, and his deputy, Gary Zhu, discuss risk in the second half of the year, the potential for unexpected shocks and how the asset manager is utilising AI to help navigate choppy investment waters.
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M&G's insurance CIO on managing a £1bn office real estate project
24 July 2024Ciaran Mulligan, chief investment officer at M&G's treasury & investment office, discusses how the group's life business' private markets exposure
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Double act: IAR meets AllianceBernstein's first CIO of insurance and his deputy
22 July 2024AllianceBernstein (AB) announced, in April, the appointment of Geoff Cornell, an industry veteran but a company outsider, as its first CIO of insurance.
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Liquidity management in an era of liquidity stress-tests
17 July 2024Amid markets, and politicians delivering never-ending stressors of liquidity, insurers at Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2024 conference discussed how their needs for and measurement of liquidity may have changed in recent years, and the reasons why
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Japan's life CIOs show yen for more than just ultra-long JGBs
15 July 2024JGBs can certainly help Japan's CIOs, in extending beyond 30 years in their duration - but the 'duration' of policyholders in Japan can extend even further. David Walker examines what CIOs can do when hunting for duration, and yield
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Don't be blinded by data scarcity on biodiversity, insurers say
10 July 2024Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's EMEA 2024 conference in June broke down the challenges involved in measuring biodiversity risk, sounded notes of optimism for the future, and urged for a new valuation for nature
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Hydrogen is developing quickly, but are insurers brave enough to take a punt?
08 July 2024The US government is pouring cash into newer renewables technologies in an effort to get them to scale and attract private investment
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COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Benelux insurers praise outsourcing partners
05 July 2024As Benelux CIOs generally got better news in 2023 and 2022, back-slapping for mandate managers seemed the order of the day
- PRA aims to streamline MA investments for insurers in 2025
- PGF Life widens scope of stewardship to local shares
- Munich Re invests in second Portuguese solar project
- SLAM acquires German logistics development property
- Zurich updates responsible investing policy paper reflecting net-zero ambitions
- APAC Weekly - Why LA's burning matters for APAC insurers
- L&G submits planning permission for £350m regeneration project
- Driving the sustainable infra highway
- L&G's Private Markets Access Fund gives Invesco Real Estate US and Asia RE mandate
- Northwestern Mutual acquires stake in asset manager Sixth Street