03 April 2025

Conning maps out landscape and attractions of esoteric ABS for insurers

Analysis

02 April 2025

'Even bigger than Allianz' - An $11.2trn 'general account' in Europe prepares to tackle climate change

To help private re/insurers, and society, face down global warming, Europe's governments are increasingly backing public re/insurers, David Walker finds
31 March 2025

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

With much of the uncertainty issuing from the White House

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?

News

  • Mapfre appoints new head of €3.2bn real estate business

    04 April 2025

  • Manulife IM acquires US cold storage facility

    04 April 2025

  • PGIM subsidiary acquires private equity portfolio from parent firm

    04 April 2025

  • Chart of the Week - Why Germany's 'silent life book run-off' could be a rainmaker for BlackRock

    04 April 2025

  • Lloyd's syndicate makes 36% on hedge fund, and 27% from gold, in 2024

    04 April 2025

  • Beazley Furlonge syndicate praises its best returns as funds and shareholdings grow

    04 April 2025

  • Fitch predicts boost for Viridium's asset management arm from BlackRock deal

    04 April 2025

  • Nippon Life joins GIIN

    04 April 2025

  • Rothesay appoints Lloyd's of London chair as chair designate

    03 April 2025

  • Royal London flags further diversification of £1.8bn MA asset portfolio

    03 April 2025

  • L&G-backed impact advisory raises $200m

    03 April 2025

  • M&G appoints new global head of real estate business

    03 April 2025

  • Tokio Marine unit names Mitsubishi in latest $1.3bn strategic-stake sell-off

    03 April 2025

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Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2025

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  1. 'Even bigger than Allianz' - An $11.2trn 'general account' in Europe prepares to tackle climate change
  2. APAC Weekly - Myanmar's (uninsured) disaster will test the humanity of global community
  3. Lloyd's syndicates keep careful watch on Donald Trump's tariff wars
  4. Pool Re appoints new chief finance and investments officer from AB
  5. PGIM Fixed Income appoints Oliver Nisenson to ABF role
  6. Folksam divests from Tesla over employee rights issues
  7. AIG to increase private assets allocation to boost slowing investment income
  8. Aviva Investors backs Welsh campus developments
  9. Conning maps out landscape and attractions of esoteric ABS for insurers
  10. Nippon Life begins direct lending to decarbonising companies

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 joins GIIN

  • Tokio Marine unit names Mitsubishi in latest $1.3bn strategic-stake sell-off

  • Aberdeen predicts yen and gold to benefit as Asia "bears the brunt" of Trump's trade war

  • 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

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

  • Mapfre appoints new head of €3.2bn real estate business

  • Rothesay appoints Lloyd's of London chair as chair designate

  • M&G appoints new global head of real estate business

  • Pool Re appoints new chief finance and investments officer from AB

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?

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