Archive

  • Real assets and US-linkers shine against inflationary risk

    15 February 2017

    Inflationary risk on the rise as UK's CPI rate hits 1.8%

  • Bank of England buys £4.9bn of corporate bonds in Q4

    30 January 2017

    Corporate debt programme is halfway to target

  • "Futile" UK interest rate cut expected in December

    26 October 2016

    Sterling's fall will have deflationary effect, predicts Fathom Consulting

  • Why bond market liquidity is back on the worry list

    28 September 2016

    JP Morgan Asset Management's Prashant Sharma and Bryan Wallace on why insurance investors must accept structurally lower liquidity in bond markets, and how they can navigate the new asset landscape.

  • DB pensions and insurers eye £300bn of gilts

    23 August 2016

    Demand for assets to match rising liabilities

  • P&C insurers first to feel the pinch of negative yielding gilts

    11 August 2016

    Life insurers to hold on to long-dated bonds, despite BoE demand

  • BoE presses on with government bond purchases

    10 August 2016

    Will make up for shortfall from botched auction later in the year

  • BoE commits to purchase £10bn of corporate bonds

    04 August 2016

    Expansion of quantitative easing is initial response to Brexit vote

  • Bank of England to put the squeeze on UK insurers

    03 August 2016

    Monetary easing may include fresh round of asset purchases. Hugo Coelho reports

  • Insurers neglecting climate risks to asset portfolios

    21 July 2016

    Ageas, MassMutual, Talanx and New York Life among the worst