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CIO Interview: Pricing in the benefits of old age
09 October 2024Genworth chief investment officer Kelly Saltzgaber explains how the US insurer makes the most of its liabilities characteristics to find yield in duration and illiquid assets
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Illiquidity in Bermudian investment portfolios
09 September 2024Bermudian groups' fair value hierarchies in 2023 analysed by Insurance Risk Data
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Interview: Phoenix/Schroders JV - playing the trend
02 September 2024Sam Tufts, head of strategy and solutions in the asset management team at Phoenix, discusses the joint venture with Schroders, its objectives and how it will work in practice
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Insurance and asset management - a marriage of convenience?
19 August 2024Insurance Asset Risk analyses recent consolidations and sell-offs of AM units at European insurers
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Liquidity management in an era of liquidity stress-tests
17 July 2024Amid 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
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Insurers fighting an "arms race" over private credit, Phoenix's CIO says
01 July 2024Hiscox 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
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Core competency - Lloyd's syndicates go outsourcing, and not just for peripheral assets
08 May 2024Lloyd's syndicates hire external help for the core of their general accounts, even if delegating makes more headlines when non-mainstream assets are involved
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The other 'hiking' - Lloyd's syndicate CIOs trek further 'off the beaten path' for alternatives
25 April 2024Yields on core fixed income may have improved with rate hikes of recent years, but some Lloyd's syndicate CIOs have ventured further from the well-trod path, searching for alternatives, as David Walker discovers
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What lurks below - Lloyd's syndicates shine a light on 'level 3' illiquid holdings
11 April 2024While liquid bonds dominate syndicates' general accounts, liquidity analysis reveals there is more to investment portfolios at Lloyd's
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CIO Interview: managing Europe's third largest general account
08 April 2024Generali group CIO Francesco Martorana discusses the Italian giant's investment strategy and reveals some of its most exotic investments, including blockchain