Archive

  • Interview: Phoenix/Schroders JV - playing the trend

    02 September 2024

    Sam 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

  • 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

  • Maintaining stability in an unstable world

    01 August 2024

    Andy Kleeman, senior managing director and co-head of private fixed income for Sun Life Capital Management, discusses some of the interesting new developments in the investment grade private credit space.

  • 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

  • Double act: IAR meets AllianceBernstein's first CIO of insurance and his deputy

    22 July 2024

    AllianceBernstein (AB) announced, in April, the appointment of Geoff Cornell, an industry veteran but a company outsider, as its first CIO of insurance.

  • Hydrogen is developing quickly, but are insurers brave enough to take a punt?

    08 July 2024

    The US government is pouring cash into newer renewables technologies in an effort to get them to scale and attract private investment

  • 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

  • Biomethane - the next big thing in European renewables, Mapfre says

    13 June 2024

    Spanish insurer is investing in biomethane plants across Spain and is even eyeing a second fund to further bolster its place in the burgeoning market

  • Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2024 conference round up

    10 June 2024

    Geopolitics and its impact on markets running thread of conference's discussions