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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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Are the Magnificent Seven the only tech game in town?
22 January 2025AllianzGI'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
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Japan's insurers put their weight behind plan for an 'asset management nation'
04 December 2024Tokyo wants Japan to be a nation known for good asset management - a goal that its insurers manifestly desire too
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APAC insurance groups reveal better investment outcomes for Bermudian subsidiaries
05 August 2024From outsourcing to equity beta data to income leaps, APAC-owned Bermudians reported on an investment job well done, in 2023
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APAC Weekly - What Japan's insurers are about to learn, from Robert the Bruce and a spider
30 July 2024In Japan both lifers and general insurers are facing monumental changes from unwinds of strategic investments underway
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Election day: How ballot box results are transforming a CIO's job
04 July 2024As geopolitics is "literally shaping markets day-in and day-out", and UK and French electors choose their next governments, Insurance Asset Risk analyses what geopolitical instability might mean for CIOs
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IAR Asia 2024: Are CIOs investors or ALM professionals?
20 June 2024Two chief investment officers discuss their changing responsibilities in light of new regulation at Insurance Asset Risk Asia Conference
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Hong Kong insurers embrace prudence as RBC set to kick in
11 June 2024And highlight areas of discussions with the regulator for future iteration of the regulation
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China's economic growth focused on quality not speed, Ping An CIO says
07 June 2024Ben Deng highlights key investment opportunities including 'fly cars'
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A new dawn? Contemplating asset strategy anew, after the BOJ's seismic policy shift
06 June 2024At a historic policy inflexion point in Japan - the Bank of Japan raising interest rates and relinquishing its long-held negative-rates stance - Man Group's Max Davies discusses interest rates, duration, FX hedging and CIOs' ongoing hunt for yield with David Walker