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Smoke and mirrors exercise in assessing climate risk in sovereigns
04 September 2023NZAOA puts draft fourth edition of target-setting protocol up for public consultation
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Momentum rising on stewardship engagement with sovereigns
31 August 2023Thomas Dillon, head of sovereign ESG at Aviva Investors, discusses the lessons learned from the PRI's sovereign engagement on climate pilot initiatives, and the intricacies of engaging with finance ministers.
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Secret plans - CIOs reveal how market risk's SCR elements (should) develop in future
30 August 2023Insurance Risk Data has unearthed strategic data about how Europe's insurers expect the six sub-modules of their market risk SCR to evolve out to 2026. David Walker investigates
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Insurance asset managers keep out of blue bonds' murky waters... for now
28 August 2023Despite widespread praise of the recent Gabon blue bond transaction, AllianzGI and Axa IM reveal to Insurance Asset Risk why they ultimately didn't invest in it
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Smooth sailing for AllianzGI trade finance funds
23 August 2023David Newman, CIO for global high yield at AllianzGI, discusses how recent storms haven't rocked the boat of trade finance as an asset class.
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Are we there yet?
21 August 2023Central bank base rates continue to climb to decades-long highs over the summer, leaving market participants in a blur as to how far away the peak is
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Comment: Athora deputy CEO on weathering the storm
16 August 2023Michele Bareggi, president & deputy CEO at Athora Group, explains why investing in private markets combined with a robust investment risk framework is the key to weather the volatility storm
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How to showcase the social value of buildings?
14 August 2023PIC's Cléo Fitzsimons and Charles Beard discusses the UK insurer's proprietary ESG scorecard for real estate investments across 65 KPIs.
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Blackstone: Size matters
09 August 2023No matter what they tell you, size is important in this world. And Blackstone is up there with the biggest. Its insurance group has tripled assets in five years—and it does not intend to stop there.
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IFRS 17: Are insurers ready for the same scrutiny they impose on their investees
07 August 2023New accounting standards, including IFRS 17, are seeking to standardise insurance accounting globally and better reflect insurers financial positions to their investors. But is their message loud, or more importantly, clear? David Walker examines
- CIO Interview: managing Europe's third largest general account
- Conning CEO on Generali's acquisition and AI in asset management
- Private credit beats PE for insurers' appetite for the first time in GSAM survey
- On the merry-go-round of asset classes, with Generali Group's CIO Francesco Martorana
- IAR Real Assets conference: "Solvency II UK reform is not a free lunch"
- News roundup: Insurance asset management
- Comment - How to find the alpha to omega of who runs investments at Chinese insurers
- Private debt at the forefront of insurers' continued advance into private markets
- Infrastructure is still a good investment for insurers looking for stability, but beware of nuanced risks
- Making real assets net-zero takes real scrutiny