Archive

  • Chart of the Week - The MA's £482bn 'capital gift' to UK lifers (and their CIOs)

    21 April 2023

    UK infrastructure, gilts and credit on the GA menu for most lifers' MA portfolios

  • Chart of the week - Why the MA matters...

    03 May 2021

    ...and not just to insurers

  • Why Aegon, Allianz, Aviva and NN are well prepared for rising rates

    30 June 2017

    Many loans and mortgages offer resilience to interest rate volatility, and with talk of rising rates becoming more frequent – whether through optimism or anticipation – IAR unmasks the largest life insurers' allocations to the lesser-used asset classes. David Walker Reports

  • Solvency II filings reveal extent of life insurers' illiquid investments

    28 June 2017

    Insurance Risk Data, the data service offered by the publishers of IAR, examined the QRTs of Europe's largest life companies that together run €1trn of investments and found they had allocated €375.7bn to five illiquid asset classes. David Walker reports