Archive

  • Insurers becoming uncomfortable with risk compensation

    14 October 2024

    Non-traditional alternative investments becoming more attractive as rates fall, Gopi Karunakaran Ardea IM's co-CIO tells Insurance Asset Risk

  • Inflation uncertainty underestimated by market, Ardea IM says

    01 May 2024

    Bond volatility structurally higher than it has been for most of the post-GFC era, Gopi Karunakaran, co-chief investment officer, tells Insurance Asset Risk

  • Will AI "obey" insurance investors, or "shall [regulator] be forced to disconnect"

    21 February 2024

    An Investec survey at the end of 2023 found that over 50% of systematic investors are using AI in their investing processes, but how are insurers and their asset managers using the technology today and how do they expect it to influence them in the future?

  • Benign or bust - The outlook for 2024 is anything but boring

    03 January 2024

    Decisions from central banks, political instability, regulatory changes - many of the threats posed by 2024 are out of insurer's hands

  • The (very) fine art of triangulating investment risk, reward and Solvency II capital

    31 May 2023

    Europe's CIOs are being challenged as never before to get investment and regulatory trade-offs right in portfolios. David Walker finds a tool built to help

  • Equities exposures - feast, then famine, for Europe's CIOs

    29 May 2023

    Whether they love them or hate them, Europe's CIOs hold shares, directly and in funds they came to about one-fifth of their GAs in Q3 2023. Appreciating or reviling the exposure may rather depend on the year, David Walker reports

  • The Big Question - modeling impacts of climate change on govvies markets

    12 May 2022

    Ardea IM's Laura Ryan talks to Insurance Asset Risk