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'Real' wars, and trade wars, keep geopolitics high on Lloyd's syndicates' risk-radars
09 April 2025Conflict and resulting turbulence seem to beset all aspects of the 'world order', much to the ongoing dismay of syndicates, David Walker reports
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Future looked murky, investors say - even before Trump tariffs
07 April 2025Speakers at Insurance Asset Risk's recent Investing in Real Assets conference in London warned that mixed messaging from the White House and the Federal Reserve was creating headaches for investors
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Conning maps out landscape and attractions of esoteric ABS for insurers
03 April 2025From music royalties to container leases, data centres to aircraft leases, esoteric ABS has something to offer every insurer
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'Even bigger than Allianz' - An $11.2trn 'general account' in Europe prepares to tackle climate change
02 April 2025To help private re/insurers, and society, face down global warming, Europe's governments are increasingly backing public re/insurers, David Walker finds
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IAR Real Assets roundup: Volatility and slow growth threaten vibrancy of sector
31 March 2025With much of the uncertainty issuing from the White House
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Sub-IG allocation under the Solvency UK sun
27 March 2025With a smoothing of the BBB-cliff, are UK insurers better placed to invest in sub-IG assets?
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Privates, privates and more privates, insurers tell GSAM
25 March 202514th annual global insurance survey also reveals changed views on inflation and US recession
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Time and experience are making CIO's plans for private assets much more intricate
19 March 2025According to Nuveen's latest EQuilibrium Global Institutional Investor Survey, insurers are getting much savvier at building private markets portfolios, but could anything blow them of course?
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Scottish Widows' head of RI on AI and AMs' voting records
17 March 2025Eva Cairns, head of responsible investment at Scottish Widows, explains the firm's governance policy around AI and the outcome of expecting voting policy adherence from asset managers
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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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