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• Are 'collectibles' and artworks good for general accounts? Two insurers frame their arguments

  04 October 2022

  From gold to holiday homes, Europe's insurers searched far and wide for yield in 2021

• The days of an easy life for European non-life investment teams are over

  30 September 2019

  As many non-life insurers come to rely on their investment performance for an ever greater slice of their total profits, or to make up for underwriting losses, investment teams are looking at new asset classes with the help of external managers. Far greater transparency about the insurers' business practices is offering a unique glimpse into what they want and to whom they outsource this key task. David Walker reports