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  • The other 'hiking' - Lloyd's syndicate CIOs trek further 'off the beaten path' for alternatives

    25 April 2024

    Yields on core fixed income may have improved with rate hikes of recent years, but some Lloyd's syndicate CIOs have ventured further from the well-trod path, searching for alternatives, as David Walker discovers

  • Chart of the Week - Do PE-linked Lloyd's syndicates take more investment risk?

    12 April 2024

    With PE links to insurers in the sights of regulators worldwide, we investigate the fair value hierarchy of some at Lloyd's

  • Lloyd's syndicates reveal investment fortunes - or lack thereof - in 2021

    13 April 2022

    From low rates to rising inflation, ESG to net zero, syndicates' CIOs have their hands full in 2022. David Walker reports

  • Canopius appoints new CFO

    02 September 2021

    Gavin Phillips joins from PwC

  • The Famous Five - How CIOs trumped underwriters, again, at Lloyd's

    26 April 2021

    If you want to know when the underwriters at Lloyd's last beat its investors, cast your mind (all the way) back to 2015. The bad luck of Lloyd's underwriters is clear. The good run of its investors is largely to plan, David Walker finds.

  • Canopius reveals new outsourcing relationship for alternatives strategy

    19 April 2021

    Specialist insurer added four managers to Lloyd's syndicate delegation roster in 2020

  • Conning, Schroders and BlueBay among managers helping Lloyd's syndicates profit in 2019

    07 September 2020

    Analysis reveals where insuring made losses, but syndicates still posted profits

  • South Korean insurers in the low rates storm

    02 January 2020

    Some South Korean insurers are making 1% too little from their investments to cover their promises. David Walker reports on the investment challenges the industry faces, and how it is coping.

  • Achilles Sofroniou leaves CIO role at Canopius Group

    28 October 2019

    He is replaced by Gareth Russell

  • Canopius becomes latest tenant at Axa’s London building

    22 October 2019

    The Lloyd’s re/insurer has agreed a pre-let for two floors at 22 Bishopsgate