Archive

  • CIO interview: Aspen looking for duration, quality and... more asset managers

    17 October 2024

    Aspen's chief investment officer for US and Bermuda, Thomas Preis met with Insurance Asset Risk in New York to discuss the Bermuda-headquartered group's investment strategy to move up in quality, and further diversify its asset classes and outsourcing asset managers

  • It's complicated: Avalanche of reforms test US insurers relationship with NAIC

    07 October 2024

    US insurers are currently facing an avalanche of new regulations to assimilate into their practice

  • Nick Liolis on Guardian's partnership with HPS Investment Partners

    02 October 2024

    Guardian is going against the PE tide, by taking a minority stake in HPS Investment Partners

  • Reading the tea leaves: How are CIOs preparing for lower rates?

    26 September 2024

    Asymmetric risk visible in a lot of asset classes at the moment, audience hears at Insurance Risk & Capital Americas 2024

  • Liquidity management in an era of liquidity stress-tests

    17 July 2024

    Amid markets, and politicians delivering never-ending stressors of liquidity, insurers at Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2024 conference discussed how their needs for and measurement of liquidity may have changed in recent years, and the reasons why

  • Don't be blinded by data scarcity on biodiversity, insurers say

    10 July 2024

    Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's EMEA 2024 conference in June broke down the challenges involved in measuring biodiversity risk, sounded notes of optimism for the future, and urged for a new valuation for nature

  • Election day: How ballot box results are transforming a CIO's job

    04 July 2024

    As 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

  • Insurers fighting an "arms race" over private credit, Phoenix's CIO says

    01 July 2024

    Hiscox and Just Group CIOs tell the Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2024 conference why it is important to keep external asset managers on their toes, particularly when it comes to private assets

  • IAR EMEA 24 - Matching adjustment reform, big bang or damp squib?

    27 June 2024

    At Insurance Asset Risk's recent EMEA 2024 conference in London, panellists sat down to discuss some of the main regulatory issues facing insurers this year from reforms to Solvency UK to the ever-proliferating amount of ESG regulation

  • IAR EMEA 24: Buckle in for inflation and geopolitical bumpiness

    24 June 2024

    Conference panellists discussed the persistence of inflation and the power of political risk to surprise