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What assets do CIOs like that CROs don’t?
31 October 2019A panel of CROs and CIOs at Insurance Asset Risk Americas conference reveals the investment decisions that prove most challenging to the relationship between risk and investment teams. Vincent Huck reports
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To outsource the CIO, or not?
29 October 2019While outsourced CIOs have been predominantly used in the pension space up until now, small US insurers are increasingly seeing the benefits of such a move. But insurers' needs differ widely from those of pension funds, and service providers will need to prove their worth to win mandates. Sarfraz Thind reports
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Q&A: the love affair between US insurers and structured products
24 October 2019Michelle Russell-Dowe, head of securitised credit at Schroders, discusses the benefits of structured products for insurers’ investments and warns of growing risk in the market. Interview by Sarfraz Thind
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Amendments to Solvency II to move the dial on insurers’ equity holdings?
22 October 2019European insurers’ equity holdings remained stable between 2017 and 2018 according to research by Insurance Risk Data, but could the recent amendments to Solvency II rules increase their appetite for the asset class? Vincent Huck reports
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Sustainability and Solvency II: an imprudent regime
17 October 2019Aviva Investors' Steve Waygood and Ben Carr, discuss integrating sustainability risk to Solvency II capital requirements, and why in some respect the prudential regulation is ‘imprudent’. Interview by Vincent Huck
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MetLife’s sustainability man
15 October 2019MetLife made Tim Ring its first head of sustainability late last year. There is no doubt he has a task on his hands, particularly when shareholders begin to divest because of ESG-related concerns. He tells Sarfraz Thind about creating a path to better ESG.
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Sustainability and Solvency II: Is the frog dead yet?
10 October 2019If the planet is a frog in a saucepan heated by the market, at the moment we are only taking the temperature and not reducing the heat, according to Steve Waygood, chief responsible investment officer, and Ben Carr, analytics and capital modelling director, at Aviva Investors. Interview by Vincent Huck
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IAR Americas: CIOs’ views on outsourcing and risk management
08 October 2019As part of a panel discussion at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2019, four CIOs of insurance companies shared their views on outsourcing and how they see their roles evolving. By Vincent Huck
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Fossil fuel exclusion proves a slow burn for US insurers
03 October 2019US insurers say they are ready to stop investing in climate-harming coal. But only one has divested from the fossil fuel to date. Could Chubb’s move be the start of a wider transition by US insurers away from fossil fuels or is it empty talk? Sarfraz Thind reports.
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IAR Americas: CIOs discuss how and where to take smart risks
01 October 2019At the Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2019 conference, four CIOs of insurance companies gave their views on taking smart risks. In the second of a two-part series, they discuss the processes they use and how they characterise their alternative portfolios. Compiled by Vincent Huck
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