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  • Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2023 conference round up

    12 June 2023

    The conference was held in London on 12 June and highlighted the investment risks and opportunities facing insurers. Vincent Huck reports

  • IAR EMEA: There is a bigger concern than inflation and rates

    12 June 2023

    CIOs reveal where they see investment opportunities in a changing world

  • Chart of the Week - Will new MA liabilities give UK CIOs fresh investment opportunities?

    12 May 2023

    Whitehall has mooted income protection and with-profits - a £6.6bn market - for MA inclusion

  • Investment volatility and rising rates will keep lapse risk high in 2023, expect Italy's lifers

    05 May 2023

    Latest solvency reports described ways they combatted surrender risk in 2022

  • Gothaer ties staff-wide bonuses to climate goals

    04 May 2023

    Reducing portfolio emissions will be 10% of variable pay decisions

  • LV= appoints new CFO

    27 April 2023

    Stephen Percival will take over from 15 May

  • 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

  • LV= appoints BlackRock as asset manager

    14 April 2023

    Moves from Columbia Threadneedle after 12 years

  • Helvetia AM Swiss Property Fund completes CHF 170m second capital raise

    24 March 2023

    Which will be used to purchase a CHF 229.5m real estate portfolio

  • Helvetia adds CHF 170m to property fund in asset raising

    23 March 2023

    Proceeds plus leverage will buy CHF 230m worth of properties