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Illiquidity in Bermudian investment portfolios
09 September 2024Bermudian groups' fair value hierarchies in 2023 analysed by Insurance Risk Data
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APAC insurance groups reveal better investment outcomes for Bermudian subsidiaries
05 August 2024From outsourcing to equity beta data to income leaps, APAC-owned Bermudians reported on an investment job well done, in 2023
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COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Benelux insurers praise outsourcing partners
05 July 2024As Benelux CIOs generally got better news in 2023 and 2022, back-slapping for mandate managers seemed the order of the day
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COTW - Round the World in SFCRs: Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Slovenia
28 June 2024SFCRs from southern Europe's insurers contained a mix of epic investment performance, and conservative approaches in 2023
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COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Iberian peninsula where core fixed income is king
21 June 2024High-grade corporates and debt, mainly local, were dislodged rarely by other investments in Spain's and Portugal's GAs last year
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Round the World with SFCRs - German insurers welcome interest rates tailwinds, but explore alts 'just in case'
07 June 2024Fixed income and equities performance in 2023 wiped out write-downs many German insurers made in 2022
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Round the World with SFCRs - Italy's lapse risk shows no sign of surrendering
03 June 2024A lot of Italians holding life policies made for the exit, early, in 2022, and the pressure on lifers seemed not to ease much in 2023
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Round the World with SFCRs - Lapse risk endures in France as life clients spy 'greener grass'
20 May 2024The risk of customers leaving early remains at French lifers, despite rates softening in 2023, keeping CIOs on alert
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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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Secret plans - CIOs reveal how market risk's SCR elements (should) develop in future
30 August 2023Insurance Risk Data has unearthed strategic data about how Europe's insurers expect the six sub-modules of their market risk SCR to evolve out to 2026. David Walker investigates