Archive

  • Japanese insurer's European merger could benefit sextet of external outsourcing partners

    27 June 2024

    Carne, BlueBay AM, Veritas AM; CBRE, Aegon AM and LGT Capital Partners set to benefit

  • St James's Place names 45 different managers on outsourcing roster

    11 March 2024

    Market risk SCR halved during 2023, group's SFCR shows

  • The nitty-gritty of insurers' IMAs with hedge funds

    14 February 2024

    An LP agreement in 2021 of Solasglas Investments and various Greenlight Re entities with hedge fund DME Advisors II, LLC, illuminated variables commonly negotiated between re/insurers and alternative managers.

  • Storebrand opens sustainability fund to all investors

    10 September 2021

    Fund invests in companies that contribute to UN's sustainability goals

  • Insurers should beware of asset quality deterioration, ESAs say

    01 April 2021

    Further lockdowns likely to lead to more downgrades in corporate bonds

  • New England AM 'rescues' Lloyd's syndicates from losses in 2019

    11 November 2020

    GSAM, BlueBay and Syz also saved multiple Lloyd's syndicates from posting losses in 2019

  • Convertible bonds shine in COVID-19 induced volatility

    30 September 2020

    Market turbulences in H1 2020 may have hit hard the asset side of insurers' balance sheet, but some assets thrive in muddy waters. David Turner looks at convertible bonds.

  • 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

  • Finding the holy grail

    21 November 2019

    With low interest rates impacting solvency ratios, insurers are looking for the holy grail of high yielding assets which do not require higher capital charges. Vincent Huck reports

  • Merged Norwegian insurer to hold $2.46bn in assets

    28 September 2018

    Third-party asset management arrangement to be unaffected when Sparebank 1 and DNB insurance arms become one