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COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Benelux insurers praise outsourcing partners
05 July 2024As Benelux CIOs generally got better news in 2023 and 2022, back-slapping for mandate managers seemed the order of the day
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Curious and curiouser - the quirky and weird risks, that Lloyd's syndicate CIOs are backing
15 May 2024Got 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
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Core competency - Lloyd's syndicates go outsourcing, and not just for peripheral assets
08 May 2024Lloyd's syndicates hire external help for the core of their general accounts, even if delegating makes more headlines when non-mainstream assets are involved
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Chart of the Week - Eurovita's general account over time, % (2017-2021)
07 July 2023SFCRs show the Italian lifer being rescued by five peers, and banks, shunned risk - including heavy BTP weightings - in its GA
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Chart of the Week - Fixed Income Born Again as GA's Prodigal Son
07 April 2023While the Christian world celebrates one resurrection this week, CIOs are making their own pilgrimage back to core fixed income
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Old dog, new(ish) tricks? Lloyd's CIOs get all esoteric
05 April 2023Lloyd's syndicates have held onto non-mainstream investments even as yields have risen - with some mixed results, David Walker finds
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Optimists prevail, at last, in Goldman Sachs AM's annual insurance survey
04 April 2023As responses highlight the 'four horsemen of insurers' investing'
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826 - the 'magic number' for European insurance investment outsourcing
24 October 2022Insurance Risk Data analysis unearths outsourcing details in annual research report
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GSAM, BNP Paribas AM, DWS retain outsourcing gigs in Italy
15 September 2022Delegations ranged from TAA to HY to fixed income multi-asset
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Chart of the week: ESG is here... but what is ESG?
24 June 2022Is there a shared end-goal on sustainability?