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Lloyd's syndicates ventured 'beyond the core' in 2024
01 May 2025For most syndicates, 'core fixed income' was the anchor for their portfolios - but that did not prevent some from charting more distant waters with their general accounts in 2024
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ESG in real assets - still fit for the future?
30 April 2025Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's Investing in Real Assets Conference 2025 in London last month discussed navigating sustainability in indirect investments and the shifting language of ESG investments
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Japan & US insurance investing - Overlapping worlds, or very different landscapes?
28 April 2025Eric Tanaka, relocated from the US to Japan to head the Wellington office. He reflects on the differences and similarities between the two markets.
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CIO interview: In praise of the grey hairs
24 April 2025In the second of this two part interview, Jelle van der Giessen reflects on his 10 year tenure as a CIO, what evolved and why the divorce between insurers and in-house asset managers needs to happen.
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When Lloyd's syndicates go investing, past patterns may not reflect future plans
23 April 2025If the image of Lloyd's syndicates conjures up 'uniformly conservative' investors, then key outsourcing partners to the market tell David Walker, a 'rethink' may be in order
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RE debt investors watchword for 2025?: 'Uncertainty'
21 April 2025Audience at Insurance Asset Risk's Investing in Real Assets Conference 2025 in London hears that tentative RE rebound has stalled - thanks to geopolitics
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How to make infrastructure investments in an over saturated market? Diversify!
17 April 2025Emerging markets are an increasingly wise prospect, IAR's recent Investing in Real Asset Conference in London has heard
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Japanese lifers looking for a beacon in the equity markets storm
16 April 2025With trade wars sending markets haywire, and equities being the highest risk in insurers' investment portfolios, investment and risk teams are holding firm, in the hope of a window of blue sky
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Downturn will reveal who has been swimming naked in private markets, CIO of Convex says
14 April 2025David Dowsett, chief investment officer at Convex Insurance, sat down with Insurance Asset Risk, in a week that saw a market meltdown induced by President Trump's short-lived plan for global tariffs.
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CIO Interview: From oil driller to sustainable chief investment officer
10 April 2025Retiring NN chief investment officer Jelle van der Giessen reflects on his 30-year career
- Insurers hopeful Solvency II LTE reform will unlock €100bn RE opportunity
- Expect NAIC to shift gears on RBC reform in 2026, Wellington Management says
- NAIC takes aim at insurer investment subsidiaries
- The savings illusion: why Europe needs investment, not deposits - and the insurers' role
- Generali Real Estate buys Czech logistics asset
- Expect lower growth in 2026 - but AI bubble not about to burst, Aviva Investors says
- Solvency II changes a "meaningful step" for securitised assets' allure, S&P says
- Private credit: are headline news and underlying performance one and the same?
- Generali's Infranity invests in Irish independent power producer
- Schroders Greencoat takes majority stake in UK green hydrogen developer