Archive

  • LGAH appoints COO as delivery of affordable homes expands

    18 February 2025

    Peter Cross joins from Blackstone

  • PGIM expands multi-asset team with co-head of portfolio management hire

    14 October 2024

    Mao Dong joins from GSAM

  • GSAM and Digital Bridge win fund-based infrastructure mandates in Japan

    06 August 2024

    Sumitomo Life and Dai-ichi Life are making separate infrastructure fund investments

  • COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Benelux insurers praise outsourcing partners

    05 July 2024

    As Benelux CIOs generally got better news in 2023 and 2022, back-slapping for mandate managers seemed the order of the day

  • Chart of the Week: Round the World - with Scandinavian/Nordic SFCRs

    14 June 2024

    Equities stormed on, but in other ways insurers' solvency filings revealed last year was "a mirror image of 2022"

  • Curious and curiouser - the quirky and weird risks, that Lloyd's syndicate CIOs are backing

    15 May 2024

    Got a satellite, a nuclear reactor, a Degas, or a body part to insure? A Lloyd's syndicate will do that - and back the risk in its GA. David Walker peers inside Lloyd's cabinet of insured curiosities

  • Core competency - Lloyd's syndicates go outsourcing, and not just for peripheral assets

    08 May 2024

    Lloyd's syndicates hire external help for the core of their general accounts, even if delegating makes more headlines when non-mainstream assets are involved

  • LGIM adds £50m to its investment in Jigsaw Homes Group

    05 February 2024

    Brings investment in affordable housing developer to £125m

  • Chart of the Week - Eurovita's general account over time, % (2017-2021)

    07 July 2023

    SFCRs show the Italian lifer being rescued by five peers, and banks, shunned risk - including heavy BTP weightings - in its GA

  • German life CIOs breath out, as the 'great ZZR unwind' begins

    19 April 2023

    In past years, German lifers dispatched CIOs to raise cash to pay into their ZZRs - like it, or not. But that reversed, and sometimes heftily, as interest rates rose in 2022. David Walker reports