Archive

  • IAR North America 2024: Geopolitics and recession top of audience's risk concerns

    18 September 2024

    Panellists at Insurance Risk and Capital Americas 2024 react

  • IAR North America 2024 round up

    16 September 2024

    Insurance Risk and Capital Americas, an Insurance Asset Risk and InsuranceERM conference, took place on 16 September tackling regulation, private credit and illiquidity considerations amongst other topics

  • IAR North America 24: Expanding wars of more concern than US election result

    16 September 2024

    Audience poll suggests worsening conflict in Ukraine and Middle East on insurer's minds

  • QBE to lose $1.6bn of investment assets in North American reinsurance deal

    09 August 2024

    Australian groups also building a HTM portfolio to improve rates risk

  • Blending art and science to build investment risk frameworks at Enstar

    06 May 2024

    Roman Halfin, investment risk officer at Enstar, explains why non-economic risks have overtaken economic ones in 2024 and how he contributes to the US insurer's investment decisions process

  • Comment - BMA picks up the 'big stick' for Bermuda's CIOs

    13 February 2023

    The regulator's announcement on illiquids and alternatives was all-stick-no-carrot, but will the BMA bite not just bark, at CIOs?

  • Enstar liquidates most of its hedge fund assets

    04 March 2022

    Insurer redeemed $2.7bn InRe Fund last year to reduce hedge fund exposure

  • Outsourced hedge fund nails 71% return for Enstar

    14 September 2021

    Hedgies made Bermuda re/insurer 28% in 2019, too

  • Asset managers turn from outsourcing partners to owners of Bermuda re/insurers

    11 November 2020

    Research by Insurance Risk Data analyses the trend of part ownership of Bermudian re/insurers by asset managers, looking in particular at the investments of Wellington, Blackstone and Carlyle. David Walker reports

  • Hedge fund reinsurers feel the heat

    07 September 2016

    Poor investment performance and tight reinsurance markets have squeezed returns for hedge fund reinsurers. With some already exiting the market, what for the future? Sarfraz Thind reports.