Archive

  • Alternative insights, for insurance CIOs

    01 March 2024

    In discussion with Tom Kehoe, the Alternative Investment Management Association's global head of research & communications

  • Chart of the Week - To JGB or not to JGB?

    01 March 2024

    That's not the question for outsourcing Japanese CIOs, apparently, seeking new managers

  • Winners of the 2024 Insurance Asset Risk awards

    29 February 2024

    Insurance Asset Risk is pleased to announce the winners of its 2024 awards

  • US life/health insurers increasingly outsourced asset management from 2016-2022, AM Best says

    28 February 2024

    Proportion of insurers using unaffiliated asset managers to control more than 50% of invested assets grew to 33.4% in 2022

  • Alpha from outsourcing jumps five-fold since 2023 at Suncorp

    26 February 2024

    But CFO expects it to more than halve in future

  • The nitty-gritty of insurers' IMAs with hedge funds

    14 February 2024

    An LP agreement in 2021 of Solasglas Investments and various Greenlight Re entities with hedge fund DME Advisors II, LLC, illuminated variables commonly negotiated between re/insurers and alternative managers.

  • Chart of the Week - As the Year of the Dragon dawns, China's insurance AMs favour growth equities

    09 February 2024

    China's Insurance AM Association reveals investment confidence levels of its members

  • Fee schedules in insurance IMAs - the hard sell

    05 February 2024

    From the most straightforward to some pock-marked by caveats and preconditions, investment provisions in investment management agreements span the full spectrum of complexity

  • Comment - Who wins, who loses, from Generali's deal with Conning

    02 February 2024

    The Italian giant is in the midst of buying the US giant - but celebrating the plans already

  • Conning acquisition opens key US asset management market to Generali, CEO of AM says

    30 January 2024

    Group CEO Donnet describes Conning acquisition as the platform to become a top tier global AM