Archive

• "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

• M&G Investments makes new institutional distribution appointments

  28 September 2023

  Remich Hendriks and Adrien Negreanu join this month

• Axa IM appoints global head of equity

  06 September 2023

  Jeroen Bos joins from Credit Suisse

• EIOPA reveals AT1 and troubled-bank exposure of Europe's insurers

  26 June 2023

  Financial Stability Report reveals ongoing selling of bank paper exposure by EEA undertakings

• Half of European insurers' investments are rated Baa or worse, Moody's estimates

  26 April 2023

  But AT1 debt under 1% of rated underwriters' financial bond holdings

• German Gothaer's investment result falls as ZZR slowly unwinds

  03 April 2023

  Composite reveals only Hamburg disaster over a century ago left bigger property bill than storm Bernd

• Comment: What's in a name? How investors are a 'proxy-SCR' for insurers' reputation risk

  27 March 2023

  Reputations contain much value quickly lost, especially in the financial sector reliant on trust

• Insurers caught up in the Swiss bad apple

  22 March 2023

  The bad news seeping out of the US in the wake of SVB was magnified this month by the fall of Credit Suisse. The damage to insurers' portfolios to this once august banking institution is for now not too bad. Could there be worse to come? Sarfraz Thind reports

• Secret CIO: Banking failures - idiosyncratic difficulty, or systemic crisis?

  21 March 2023

  And what does it mean for insurers' strategic asset allocation

• US insurers held $7bn in Credit Suisse bonds at end 2021

  17 March 2023

  A number of insurers have small size holdings in troubled bank