Analysis

  • How should investors respond to "a year of disruptions"?

    02 July 2025

    Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's EMEA 2025 conference discuss the impact of uncertainty, and potential responses to upturned expectations

  • APAC Weekly: Are markets complacent, or is current uncertainty simply unpriceable?

    01 July 2025

    Insurance Asset Risk Asia 2025 conference panellists wonder

  • Behind the scenes: Inside L&G's unique investment in Togo

    30 June 2025

    Insurers seen as prime candidates for development banks looking to broaden their investment bases

  • Insurers are wary of the other BBB

    25 June 2025

    How could President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill make life difficult for insurers?

  • IAR Asia 2025 round up: No complaints albeit negative outlook

    24 June 2025

    Asia a good place to be, as US exceptionalism wavers

  • Confusion takes over the great normalisation, Guy Miller tells Insurance Asset Risk conference

    23 June 2025

    Summary of Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2025 keynote by Zurich's Guy Miller

  • Has impact investing taken a hit?

    18 June 2025

    Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's EMEA 2025 conference in London discussed the challenges faced by insurers around impact and sustainable investing, the ESG backlash, and the possibility of a new dawn for the practice

  • Mike Eakins in the hot seat

    16 June 2025

    At Insurance Asset Risk's recent EMEA 2025 conference in London, Mike Eakins, CIO of Phoenix Group, discussed in a fireside chat a wide set of issues, ranging from the new Mansion House Accord to the benefits of volatility and the continuing rise of private asset investments.

  • SFCR 2025 - The matching adjustment misfired, again, in Spain in 2024

    13 June 2025

    Overall, the MA delivered a capital benefit to Spanish lifers using it in 2024. But that was not always the case, for the capital requirements of most of its users

  • How best to hedge - Schroders' wise counsel on FX risk and APAC insurers

    11 June 2025

    After sharp intakes of breath by some Taiwan lifers as their dollar jolted 8% against the greenback over two days last month, Insurance Asset Risk asked Pedro Moura, head of Asia client solutions at Schroders, for advice on APAC insurers hedging FX risk.