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  • Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights

    17 April 2024

    The Bank of Japan may have stolen the limelight last month, but insurance CIOs made headlines as well, with eye-catching allocations to non-mainstream assets and emerging managers

  • CFOs favour stable allocations as concerns over growth persist

    16 April 2024

    Insurers say holdings of illiquid assets unlikely to change in Moody's survey

  • SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books, and investments, of Zurich and AXA

    16 April 2024

    Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators Viridium and Athora, respectively

  • Aviva reveals make-up of MA investment portfolio

    16 April 2024

    MA assets now represent about 42% of general account

  • Non-PE backed insurers feel pressure to compete with PE-backed firms

    15 April 2024

    Building up liquidity and securing more yield key focus for insurers, Insight Investment's O'Brien says

  • 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

  • Insurance Risk Data collecting key data and reports from breadth and width of Europe's insurance industry

    12 April 2024

    Undertakings have published their annual solvency filings for 2023

  • Zurich favours US equities over credit despite investor complacency across both asset classes

    12 April 2024

    Market rate cut expectations closer to reality than last year, but cracks beginning to form in the "perfect picture" landing scenario

  • Chart of the Week - Do PE-linked Lloyd's syndicates take more investment risk?

    12 April 2024

    With PE links to insurers in the sights of regulators worldwide, we investigate the fair value hierarchy of some at Lloyd's

  • New research unpicks shortcomings in LDI industry during 2022 gilts crisis

    11 April 2024

    Researchers say Bank of England intervention "offset dysfunction" in gilts market