Analysis

  • Sustainability: CIOs come armed with the stick, CUOs dangle the carrot

    31 January 2024

    Aspen's chief investment officer and chief underwriting officer discuss how they collaborate on sustainability and how insurers can tackle sustainability holistically.

  • Are insurers' outsourcing agreements contracts 'made in heaven'?

    29 January 2024

    Investment management agreements lock in some tasty fees for managers signing on the dotted line, but insurance CIOs increasingly expect a wide scope of 'extras' to boot

  • D&I isn't just for the 'woke' crowd

    25 January 2024

    Andy Mason, head of active ownership at abrdn, explains why D&I at investee companies is a priority for an asset manager and how diversity helps companies' bottom lines

  • PRT market records are there to be broken, but they are not a measure of success, L&G's Moret says

    23 January 2024

    Dom Moret, head of origination and execution on the pension risk transfer team, takes Insurance Asset Risk behind the scenes of a record year in the pension risk transfer market at L&G

  • Regulation and lack of council expertise is driving investment inequality in the UK

    17 January 2024

    PIC's managing director, Hayley Rees, explains on behalf of the Purposeful Finance Commission how local council constraints and a complex planning regime have held back investment outside the UK capital

  • Japan's fossil fuel puzzle

    15 January 2024

    Japan's progress to sustainable investing has been a slow one. The country remains hampered by a largely fossil fuel-dependent economy, a puzzling challenge for insurers.

  • Real estate opportunities await in 2024, M&G says

    10 January 2024

    Jose-Luis Pellicer, global head of investment strategy at M&G Real Estate, discusses the outlook for the real estate market next year with Insurance Asset Risk, and explains the 'mindset shift' the sector needs

  • Comment - How life insurers might respond to the IMF on private equity risks

    08 January 2024

    The IMF listed various risks of growing PE involvement in the re/insurance industry

  • Benign or bust - The outlook for 2024 is anything but boring

    03 January 2024

    Decisions from central banks, political instability, regulatory changes - many of the threats posed by 2024 are out of insurer's hands

  • A sense of doom and gloom greeted the arrival of 2023, but was it really as bad as expected?

    01 January 2024

    Fixed income and sub-investment grade investments were key trends in a year that was not exactly benign