Archive

  • Chart of the Week - Outsourcing by Bermudian re/insurers

    16 August 2024

    Bermuda re/insurers seek a lot of expert help from independent asset managers

  • APAC Weekly - China debt plan launches suggest no end in sight to insurers' thirst for infra

    06 August 2024

    Almost 200 infrastructure debt and equity plans have been launched by Chinese insurance asset managers so far this year

  • APAC Weekly - Singapore's CIOs are nothing if not eclectic

    16 July 2024

    Recent results show a community of CIOs spanning the allocation spectrum from weighty-alts to core-fixed-income

  • Chubb Life appoints Hong Kong CIO

    08 May 2024

    Ben Rudd joins from Prudential Wealth Management

  • Core competency - Lloyd's syndicates go outsourcing, and not just for peripheral assets

    08 May 2024

    Lloyd's syndicates hire external help for the core of their general accounts, even if delegating makes more headlines when non-mainstream assets are involved

  • CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'

    02 May 2024

    In severe 'Nat Cat years' before 2023, CIOs at Lloyd's acted as 'cash registers', disgorging cash to meet steep property claims. Last year, a 'break in the weather' let them 'take stock', and many seized that 'down-time' to progress climate-investing with managers and funds

  • Chart of the Week - Hong Kong's RBC rules and their capital charges for CIOs

    26 April 2024

    The risk-factor charges Hong Kong's CIOs will apply under RBC appeared in a long document today, for various asset classes and risk types

  • 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

  • "Bonds are back" - Goldilocks appears for Lloyd's syndicates' fixed income holdings

    18 April 2024

    Not a big bad bear was in sight when syndicates published annual reports in March, but many warned of elevated geopolitical instability risks

  • Insurance Risk Data collecting key data and reports from breadth and width of Europe's insurance industry

    12 April 2024

    Undertakings have published their annual solvency filings for 2023