Archive

  • Insurance and asset management - a marriage of convenience?

    19 August 2024

    Insurance Asset Risk analyses recent consolidations and sell-offs of AM units at European insurers

  • From the Gothic Dom Tower to wind and solar farms, the a.s.r. way

    07 August 2024

    How the dutch insurer is navigating its way through renewables investing in the Netherlands

  • M&G's insurance CIO on managing a £1bn office real estate project

    24 July 2024

    Ciaran Mulligan, chief investment officer at M&G's treasury & investment office, explains how the group's life business works with the asset management arm, its private markets exposure, big themes on his mind currently, and details the story of its star £1bn real estate asset, 40 Leadenhall

  • 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

  • IAR Asia 2024: Are CIOs investors or ALM professionals?

    20 June 2024

    Two chief investment officers discuss their changing responsibilities in light of new regulation at Insurance Asset Risk Asia Conference

  • CIO Interview: Pre-determined green target setting can be dangerous, AG Insurance's Wim Vermeir says

    27 May 2024

    Insurance Asset Risk sits down to talk with AG Insurance's veteran CIO Wim Vermeir about green targets and the perils of investing in new technology

  • CIO Interview: I don't believe in a soft landing, Mapfre CIO José Luis Jiménez says

    22 April 2024

    "I've always thought it's a shame that Madrid doesn't have a beach," is just one of several sweeping observations that Insurance Asset Risk makes while waiting to sit down (virtually) with José Luis Jiménez, Mapfre's long-standing CIO.

  • On the merry-go-round of asset classes, with Generali Group's CIO Francesco Martorana

    15 April 2024

    In the second part of this interview, Generali group CIO Francesco Martorana discusses on the merry-go-round of asset classes the Italian giant invests in, and provides an outlook for the next 12 to 18 months

  • Why the PRI has its sights set high for Asia

    10 April 2024

    PRI board member Takeshi Kimura explains why Asian investors have the potential to lead the global financial industry and how they are adopting a "future-maker" mindset

  • CIO Interview: managing Europe's third largest general account

    08 April 2024

    Generali group CIO Francesco Martorana discusses the Italian giant's investment strategy and reveals some of its most exotic investments, including blockchain