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Insurers double down on defence spending, while maintaining ESG exclusions
12 March 2025ESG and defence investments not mutually exclusive, insurers suggest, as NATO powers commit to spend more
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It will take more than Solvency tweaks to mobilise capital in UK plc
10 March 2025Private sector stakeholders highlight the need for more effective blended finance solutions at ABI annual conference
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Insurers worldwide seek lessons from LA's infernos
05 March 2025From California to Australia, stakeholders in assessing, covering and combatting wildfire risk tell David Walker lessons will be learned from Los Angeles's horrors
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Time is a jet plane: Are investors keeping cool in the head-spinning Trump era?
03 March 2025The US president has not even been in power for 50 days, and yet everything is changing fast
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Insurers have fortified their RE debt platforms - and now rival banks
26 February 2025With banks retrenching from RE debt thanks to regulation, insurers are fortifying their positions and building out their platforms - with Europe set to become more like the US market
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Why non-life CIOs may struggle in fight for APAC's spare capital
24 February 2025An APAC bond yield of 2.4%? Or an insurance operation's 19%? Take your pick...
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A river runs through it
19 February 2025For all the political noise against ESG, asset managers tell Insurance Asset Risk nothing has changed, and their sustainability offerings and strategies are seeing an insatiable demand
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How can an asset manager provide an insurer with the best custom fit?
17 February 2025James Bradbury, business development manager on Wellington Management's EMEA insurance team, tells David Walker how the manager's bespoke solutions are cut to fit its customers
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Insurers now taking a more blended approach to public and private investing, Barings says
12 February 2025Insurance Asset Risk sat down with Patrick O'Sullivan, head of international insurance solutions at investment manager Barings to discuss his role and the sector's changing approach to investing in private markets.
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Real estate market back to basics
10 February 2025Values in the private markets have corrected signaling an encouraging outlook for real estate investors, Andrew Angeli, global head of real estate research and strategy at Zurich, says
- From major regulators to major ratings agencies, funded re causes concern
- Insurers' outsourced accounts triple proportion allocated to private markets over last decade, study finds
- Cathay Life commits $140m to three alternative investment structures
- Aviva joins £200m deal to fund build-to-rent community in Birmingham
- Comment - How the PRA has helped UK insurers seeking M&A
- Prudential appoints new group CIO from Goldman Sachs
- La Caisse rejects UN allegation it participates in "economy of genocide"
- Barings invests $200m in Australian self-storage sector
- Nippon Life puts GA behind start-up helping Japan's 2.3m foreign workers
- Chart of the Week: £80bn hay-day! Sun shines as UK underwriters wed