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IAR Real Assets: Perfect landing expected in the US, but we're still circling the runway, Swiss Re says
14 March 2024ERGO group finding investing in ESG infrastructure more difficult than expected
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Insurers face "pressure in the pipes" of the metaphorical plumbing of the financial system
28 March 2023Panellists say at Insurance Asset Risk investing in real assets conference
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Greek insurers bemoan low yields on once-tragic local debt
28 June 2021One CIO liquidated a bond originally designed to bail Greece out, for its negative yield to maturity
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"We decided we were going to see equity positions through the crisis," Ergo's Fiedler says
20 October 2020IAR 2020 EMEA: Ergo group head of SAA says credit was more worrying when virus broke out
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Video: ALM - are the assets matching the liabilities? Or is it the other way around?
02 July 2019Thomas Fiedler of ERGO Group comments on the evolution of asset liability matching
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Investment challenges arising from shifting insurance business models
26 June 2019At Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2019 conference European insurers discuss as part of a panel the shifts in insurance business models and the ramification for investments strategies. In this first part of a two-part series, they discuss the ongoing consolidation in the market. Compiled by David Walker
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The 'obscure' Solvency II co-investment rule
30 April 2019Recent changes to co-investing rules under Solvency II have been received with mixed feelings by European insurers. Many players are even unaware there has been a development. Vincent Huck reports
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Bridging language barriers between insurers and external asset managers
26 June 2018IAR EMEA conference: panel explores insurer/manager relationship
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Impact investing or impact washing?
13 June 2018Insurers say they can find financial value in ESG investing, but they have to be wise to investments that don't deliver on their stated goals. And while ESG can mean different things to different stakeholders, a push for standardisation is not always welcome, according to panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's 2018 EMEA conference. Vincent Huck reports