31 March 2025

IAR Real Assets roundup: Volatility and slow growth threaten vibrancy of sector

Analysis

27 March 2025

Sub-IG allocation under the Solvency UK sun

With a smoothing of the BBB-cliff, are UK insurers better placed to invest in sub-IG assets?
25 March 2025

Privates, privates and more privates, insurers tell GSAM

14th annual global insurance survey also reveals changed views on inflation and US recession
19 March 2025

Time and experience are making CIO's plans for private assets much more intricate

According to Nuveen's latest EQuilibrium Global Institutional Investor Survey, insurers are getting much savvier at building private markets portfolios, but could anything blow them of course?

News

  • AIG to increase private assets allocation to boost slowing investment income

    01 April 2025

  • MEAG sells Stuttgart mixed-use property complex to JP Morgan

    01 April 2025

  • Nippon Life begins direct lending to decarbonising companies

    01 April 2025

  • Thai regulator modifies supervision as insurers expand scope of activities

    01 April 2025

  • Japan Post Insurance outsources local climate-aware equities with Daiwa AM

    01 April 2025

  • Aberdeen Investments appoints chief client officer

    01 April 2025

  • Nuveen appoints global head of real estate

    01 April 2025

  • APAC Weekly - Myanmar's (uninsured) disaster will test the humanity of global community

    01 April 2025

  • Blackstone-backed Ki syndicate at Lloyd's fires for alternatives manager

    01 April 2025

  • IAR Real Assets: US market seeing "green-hushing" after Trump election

    31 March 2025

  • IAR Real Assets: Insurers "walking away" from infra transactions due to pricing

    31 March 2025

  • IAR Real Assets: Market volatility has stunted great start to 2025 for real estate, Phoenix Group says

    31 March 2025

  • IAR Real Assets: Solvency UK reforms need time to bed-in, ABI says

    31 March 2025

Event

10 June 2025, 8:50 AM

Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2025

Debate the key risks, challenges, and opportunities facing insurers today.
Most Read
  1. Sub-IG allocation under the Solvency UK sun
  2. IAR Real Assets: Insurers "walking away" from infra transactions due to pricing
  3. Japan Post Insurance cedes asset risk in $3.7bn Bermuda reinsurance deal
  4. Zurich "cautiously optimistic" ahead of 2 April tariff announcements
  5. Mitsui Sumitomo plans major investment in specialty underwriter WR Berkley
  6. EIOPA recommends 100% capital charge for crypto assets
  7. M&G Real Estate acquires stake in South Korean luxury hotel
  8. IAR Real Assets: Market volatility has stunted great start to 2025 for real estate, Phoenix Group says
  9. Comment - A CIO must be a 'prudent person', EIOPA says - but apply 100% capital charges to crypto holdings, just in case
  10. Privates, privates and more privates, insurers tell GSAM

Insurance Asset Risk UK & Europe Awards 2025

Insurance Asset Risk Awards 2025 - UK & Europe

The awards formally recognise the very best in insurance asset management for the UK and European markets. The winners have been revealed.

How Blackstone sets itself apart

Blackstone takes a customised approach to working with its insurance clients, and believes its scale and capital-lite approach makes it uniquely placed to partner with its clients globally. The firm's global head of insurance business spoke to Insurance Asset Risk.

Building the future

L&G's investments in affordable housing and digital infrastructure has made it the winner of two awards. Alex Wharton, Managing Director of Partnerships and Insurance within the Asset Management division, explains how it all fits together.

Investing for tomorrow

Royal London Asset Management's Head of Equities, Mike Fox and Head of Global Equities, Paul Schofield, discuss their equity market capabilities and what may lie ahead for investors in 2025.

Finding value in a turbulent world

The real estate market has seen great turbulence in recent years. Per Erikson, head of real estate at Swiss Life Asset Managers sat down to explain how the firm manages to not only find, but add value, into its transactions and holdings.

Spotlight: Sustainable Investing

13 January 2025

Driving the sustainable infra highway

Jérôme Jean Haegeli discusses how and why sustainable infrastructure needs to become a tradeable asset class
27 January 2025

ESG is on trial. Are you ready to convict?

The term ESG has become box office poison in recent months. Is it dead and buried or looking for a new definition?
19 February 2025

A river runs through it

For all the political noise against ESG, asset managers tell Insurance Asset Risk nothing has changed, and their sustainability offerings and strategies are seeing an insatiable demand
17 March 2025

Scottish Widows' head of RI on AI and AMs' voting records

Eva Cairns, head of responsible investment at Scottish Widows, explains the firm's governance policy around AI and the outcome of expecting voting policy adherence from asset managers

Focus on Asia Pacific

More on Asia Pacific
22 January 2025

Are the Magnificent Seven the only tech game in town?

AllianzGI's CIO global technology equity, Jeremy Gleeson, discusses the broadening out of tech investments in 2025, why early disappointments are to be expected, and the semiconductor cycle turning point

  • Nippon Life begins direct lending to decarbonising companies

  • Thai regulator modifies supervision as insurers expand scope of activities

  • Japan Post Insurance outsources local climate-aware equities with Daiwa AM

  • APAC Weekly - Myanmar's (uninsured) disaster will test the humanity of global community

  • Japan Post Insurance cedes asset risk in $3.7bn Bermuda reinsurance deal

  • Chart of the week - APAC, climate change, and what governments must do to attract adaptation capital

  • M&G Real Estate acquires stake in South Korean luxury hotel

  • Mitsui Sumitomo plans major investment in specialty underwriter WR Berkley

  • Manulife advocates "fundamental rethink" of investing to handle Asian longevity

  • Comment: Chinese insurers hear Beijing loud and clear: "Back AI"

  • Generali vows to continue China AM joint venture after buying non-life firm

  • Chinese insurance AMs discuss benefits of AI investing at Shenzhen seminar

Outsourcing

  • SLAM takes £120m new account mandate for UK education charity

  • Japan Post Insurance picks new manager for local equity investing

  • French insurers seek asset manager for private biodiversity fund

  • Scottish Widows' head of RI on AI and AMs' voting records

People

  • Aberdeen Investments appoints chief client officer

  • Nuveen appoints global head of real estate

  • L&G appoints new CEO of DC and workplace savings

  • WTW subsidiary appoints chief investment strategist

Regulation

  • IAR Real Assets: Solvency UK reforms need time to bed-in, ABI says

  • IAR Real Assets: Use private market's lack of sentiment to advantage, Munich Re says

  • EIOPA recommends 100% capital charge for crypto assets

  • Comment - A CIO must be a 'prudent person', EIOPA says - but apply 100% capital charges to crypto holdings, just in case

Systems/Data

  • Winners of the 2025 Insurance Asset Risk EMEA awards

  • Axa IM hails blockchain trials a success

  • Mapfre AM to unify investment process for public and private assets

  • Til tech do us part - are AI investments a love story for the ages?