Archive

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Chart of the Week - Fixed Income Born Again as GA's Prodigal Son

    07 April 2023

    While the Christian world celebrates one resurrection this week, CIOs are making their own pilgrimage back to core fixed income

  • Old dog, new(ish) tricks? Lloyd's CIOs get all esoteric

    05 April 2023

    Lloyd's syndicates have held onto non-mainstream investments even as yields have risen - with some mixed results, David Walker finds

  • Optimists prevail, at last, in Goldman Sachs AM's annual insurance survey

    04 April 2023

    As responses highlight the 'four horsemen of insurers' investing'

  • 826 - the 'magic number' for European insurance investment outsourcing

    24 October 2022

    Insurance Risk Data analysis unearths outsourcing details in annual research report