Archive

  • Insurers take on more investment risk as quantitative easing bites

    26 October 2015

    Industry falls out of love with infra debt and ramps up cash holdings

  • "Short-sighted" insurers urged to adopt SII tripartite model

    22 October 2015

    Asset managers stretched by a plethora of bilateral agreements

  • Morningstar and Interactive Data join forces for funds look-through solution

    22 October 2015

    Service targets improved pillar 3 efficiency

  • Commission may cut Solvency II capital charges for infrastructure corporates

    19 October 2015

    Eiopa asked to provided technical advice before the end of January

  • What asset managers should do about Solvency II

    16 October 2015

    Asset management firms are keen to assist insurers in their solvency capital calculations, but some of their contributions are more helpful than others, as Andries Beukes and Pamela Hellig explain

  • Managing illiquid assets needs banking-like skills

    16 October 2015

    In part two of this InsuranceERM/Insurance Asset Risk and Standard Life Investments roundtable on illiquid assets, experts discuss the management capabilities required and how the assets fit into Solvency II

  • Smoothing the flow in illiquid assets

    09 October 2015

    Illiquid assets have the potential to boost the yield and diversification of insurers' investments, but they are not a shoo-in to the portfolio, as discussed in part one of this InsuranceERM/Insurance Asset Risk and Standard Life Investments roundtable

  • Commission orders cut to Solvency II charges on infrastructure and ABS

    01 October 2015

    Capital treatment of private equity up for review

  • Infrastructure charges still too high, industry says

    01 October 2015

    Insurance Europe says barriers to investment remain

  • Insurers risk "huge" losses on stranded assets, Carney says

    30 September 2015

    Heightened capital requirements for high-carbon investments ruled out