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  • PRO BTP Group picks Moody’s Analytics modelling technology

    05 October 2018

    Tool will be used for asset allocation

  • Tripartite Template 4th version comes into effect

    27 September 2018

    Template requires asset managers to indicate the statuses of infrastructure investments.

  • Non-life sector turns to investing as underwriting falters

    21 September 2018

    Analysis by Insurance Risk Data of combined ratios reveals reallocating is one of many 'levers' insurers can pull to bolster profits. David Walker reports

  • Axa IM announces responsible investment structure

    19 September 2018

    Move will see analysts embedded within platforms to manage company level analysis, freeing up central function to focus on longer term, strategic themes.

  • Rendez-Vous de Septembre: Clouded optimism in uncertain times

    19 September 2018

    The annual reinsurance meeting in Monte Carlo is a good barometer to measure the sector's health. This year, amid successfully managing last year's losses from natural disasters, reinsurers' indicators seem to be flashing 'green'. But uncertainty still looms like black clouds in the distance. Vincent Huck reports

  • Insurers get a taste for investment risk

    17 September 2018

    Readiness to take chances grows among insurance investors

  • Insurers and asset managers: a relationship in turmoil

    13 September 2018

    The relationship between insurers and their asset manager is evolving, shifted by macroeconomic changes, regulations, fee pressures and new asset dynamics. Insurers say they want more from their asset managers. But more of what precisely? And how are managers responding? IAR asks the industry. By Sarfraz Thind

  • Volatilità spurs Italian insurers to review portfolios

    04 September 2018

    Italy's underwriters long understood their sovereign debt was not riskless. This year's jolts only intensified their search for other investments, as David Walker reports

  • UN-supported PRI launches free online climate tool

    03 September 2018

    Analysing exposure to transition risk in equity and fixed income portfolios over multiple scenarios

  • Risk management and optimizing investment strategies

    23 August 2018

    Insurers want more alternative assets but struggle to evaluate the optimum risk/return portfolio