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Distilling complexity for CIOs' benefit
06 November 2023Various pressures have come to bear on insurance CIOs in recent years - and not always because of mercurial investment markets. Schroders' Alberto Scarsini distils the challenges to find the basic elements
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Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference: Regulatory risk
01 November 2023Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 discuss potential regulatory changes on the horizon, and what actions insurers are taking to prepare and ready their portfolios in response
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Alternatives on the mind
31 October 2023Mercer has been developing the alternatives bucket for its smaller US insurer clients. It has also been looking to assist with ESG goals. So far, however, its clients have shown more ambition than action as the company's co-head of US insurance, Chris Tschida, explaines
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Revisiting liquidity risk in times of high interest rates and banking failures
30 October 2023Panellists at Insurance Risk and Capital Bermuda 2023 conference discuss their approach to liquidity risk as regulatory scrutiny increases and market volatility provides challenges
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Hydrogen on the way up?
25 October 2023Insurers and their asset managers are taking tentative steps into the world of green hydrogen investing to capture a first mover premium and shore up net-zero strategies. But what's holding insurers back from flying away with the gas?
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In the Know - Schroders' Alberto Scarsini
23 October 2023A background rooted firmly in the world of insurers and their investing habits has equipped Alberto Scarsini very well indeed, for advising EMEA and global insurers, at the asset manager Schroders, as David Walker discovers
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Insurance Asset Risk Americas: Regulatory Risk
18 October 2023Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 discuss potential regulatory changes on the horizon, and what actions insurers are taking to prepare and ready their portfolios in response.
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Insurance Asset Risk's Responsible Investing for Insurers conference round up
16 October 2023The conference was held in London on 16 October and highlighted the challenges and dilemmas insurers face in building and implementing sustainable investment strategies
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Volatility blows in Outsourced CIO sails
11 October 2023The outsourcing chief investment officer world sometimes goes under the radar. Mercer's co-head of US insurance, Chris Tschida, explains how the OCIO giant works its magic and why its advice is needed now more than ever.
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Designing natural capital funds for insurers' investment needs
09 October 2023Launched in 2020, Climate Asset Management designed two strategies one of which is focused on sourcing natural capital investment opportunities for insurers. Megan Reilly Cayten, senior investment manager, explains what the fund invests in, and why it has been more successful with European insurers than US ones.
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- Private debt at the forefront of insurers' continued advance into private markets
- Making real assets net-zero takes real scrutiny