Archive

  • Allianz flags possible step-up in Indian investing despite significant disposal plans

    19 March 2025

    German group wants to sell life and general insurers to JV partner for €2.6bn

  • 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?

  • Insurers are picking up banks' fossil fuel financing slack

    16 December 2024

    Rainforest Action Network says there is a "shocking lack of transparency about what insurers are underwriting and investing in"

  • More comfortable down the curve

    US-based Brett Sullivan, head of alternative investments for Allianz Life, speaks Risk about the thinking behind the investments made in private credit.

  • Allianz US former CIO joins insurance dedicated asset manager

    28 June 2024

    Todd Hedtke joins Intera Capital Partners

  • Nippon Life plans foreign bond buying for foreign-FX endowment insurance

    23 February 2024

    Among other insurers YoY foreign-FX exposure is fairly immobile

  • US insurers remaining calm in face of bond market rout

    06 October 2023

    But the speed and magnitude of yields move has still been a surprise

  • AI: Rise of the machines

    26 July 2023

    AI has become the ubiquitous topic of conversation this year. Investors, like many others, are looking at its potential uses. But can machines really replace humans in the delicate discipline of allocation? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Allianz Life's CIO: from AGI to AI

    21 June 2023

    Jean Roch Sibille sees the use of AI spilling over into the asset management world. But are machines ready to replace the CIO himself? Not just yet, he tells Sarfraz Thind

  • Allianz Life's CIO: from risk to return

    13 June 2023

    Jean Roch Sibille moved from his CRO role at Allianz Life to take over the CIO mantle just over a year ago. He gives an insight into the firm's asset management strategy and working with some of the best investors on the street. Sarfraz Thind reports