Archive

  • St James' Place adds US managers to outsourcing roster in 2024

    10 March 2025

    Wealth manager has already hired Schroders, and RLAM, so far this year

  • APAC Weekly - India opens GA-floodgates for local investments, or maybe not...

    04 February 2025

    India's federal budget for 2025/2026 is removing the FDI cap for insurers, but with GA-strings attached. CUOs may love it, but will CIOs take the bait?

  • Lloyd's launches Canadian fixed income solution on investment platform

    27 June 2024

    Fund managed by Fiera Capital has signed Brit and Ki as cornerstone investors

  • Radian names Sumita Pandit as CFO

    19 May 2023

    Will oversee investments for mortgage insurer

  • US insurers timidly assessing climate risk

    14 December 2020

    From increasingly fierce wildfires in California to recurring hurricane hits to the country's southern and eastern seaboards, US insurers are only too familiar with some intensifying effects of climate change, but are they doing anything about it? David Walker takes the temperature.

  • North American insurers "not well prepared" for negative rates

    25 March 2020

    Regulatory models also break down under negative rates, actuarial research finds

  • Alternatives shine for Lloyd's syndicates

    05 April 2017

    Following the insights gleaned on rising manager fees and falling yields for Lloyd's syndicates, David Walker shines light on the well-performing fraction of alternative investments made by the sector in 2015.

  • Investment expenses jumped as yields fell for Lloyd's syndicates

    03 April 2017

    As Lloyd's syndicates begin to report their 2016 results, David Walker looks back at the 2015 figures and finds that investment expenses rose about 10% in 2015, but yields fell almost 40%.

  • German re/insurers' units buy into motorway firm

    04 August 2015

    Allianz CP and MEAG in consortium buying Autobahn Tank & Rast

  • Manulife lends to Canadian Solar project

    22 July 2015

    Provides C$52.8m for Aria solar plant