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RLAM warns of new era of 'spikeflation'
30 April 2024Head of multi asset says prepare for shorter, more volatile business cycles
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Chinese life investment yields in 2023 revealed
30 April 2024Fitch welcomes cooling in major firms' investment return assumptions
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CIO Interview: From politics to sustainability, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder
29 April 2024In the second part of Insurance Asset Risk's interview with José Luis Jiménez, Mapfre's CIO talks about the difficulties around defining sustainability, and the thorny issue of managing political and geographical risk in an era that has proven to be irrepressibly unpredictable.
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Hong Kong considering future capital-factor incentives for infrastructure investments
26 April 2024Green bond discount, and rejection of time-lag for asset valuations, published by Insurance Authority today
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Japanese lifers tell trade body they want more in return for holding equities
25 April 2024Returns, dividend payout ratios and returns on equity common causes of discontent
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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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Impairment issues in CRE not a rating worry for Korean insurers, Fitch says
23 April 2024Revealing CRE overseas exposure of Korean insurers
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Opacity and growing interconnectedness in PE space, key worry for Bank of England
22 April 2024Nathanaël Benjamin executive director of financial stability strategy and risk at BoE explained
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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.
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Comment - Lapse risk, SFCRs and getting more transparency into Italian insurers
22 April 2024Nine data cells reveal the stress that sent one prominent lifer to the wall