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  • CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'

    02 May 2024

    In severe 'Nat Cat years' before 2023, CIOs at Lloyd's acted as 'cash registers', disgorging cash to meet steep property claims. Last year, a 'break in the weather' let them 'take stock', and many seized that 'down-time' to progress climate-investing with managers and funds

  • MAP holds firm on bullion ETFs, enjoys "small pat on the back" for avoiding tech stocks

    05 April 2023

    Managing agency suffered its first back-to-back investment losses in 2021/2022

  • Comment: What's in a name? How investors are a 'proxy-SCR' for insurers' reputation risk

    27 March 2023

    Reputations contain much value quickly lost, especially in the financial sector reliant on trust

  • Lloyd's syndicates see the light on ESG investing

    12 April 2021

    Annual statements promised greater openness on sustainable practices, but some are skeptical of the London market's approach to sustainability. David Walker reports.

  • Lloyd's syndicates $100m outsourcing treasure

    18 April 2019

    In the second part of our two-part series on Lloyd's syndicates and their investments, David Walker analyses their portfolio allocations and performance, uncovering a treasure most asset managers would want a map to.

  • Lloyd's syndicates open up about investment outsourcing

    11 April 2019

    Research by Insurance Risk Data reveals the 2018 winners and losers of the mandated asset managers for Lloyd's syndicates. David Walker reports on who won which mandates, who received applause and who wasn't that lucky.

  • Allianz posts 6.8% first quarter profit rise, driven by investment growth

    15 May 2018

    Pimco contributes €19.2bn of €20.9bn of new inflows

  • The Solvency II mandate race

    29 March 2017

    Solvency II has turbo-boosted the move to insurance asset outsourcing. Asset managers are beefing up their capabilities to win market share—but what can you do to make yourself stand out from the crowd? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Allianz CIO prepares for post-QE volatility

    14 May 2015

    Andreas Gruber, CIO of Allianz, handles one of the biggest insurance investment portfolios in the world. Here he talks to Sarfraz Thind about the structure used to support multiple regions and assets, the attractions of illiquid assets and being ready for when the bubble bursts at the end of quantitative easing