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Blackstone-backed Ki syndicate at Lloyd's fires for alternatives manager
01 April 2025Algorithmically-driven syndicate is backed by the asset manager and insurer Fairfax
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Lloyd's promotes Alexandra Cliff to CFO
30 January 2025As Burkhard Keese departs to focus on investment roles in the German insurance market
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Lloyd's London Bridge investment platform reaches $1.92bn deployed
21 January 2025With $2.55bn committed from institutional investors
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APAC Weekly - 'Thanks for that job interview,' says the smiling APAC CEO - 'we'll text you, yeah?'
24 December 2024Re/insurers join 'generation Insta' in slay bid for rizz, to woo Gen-Z employees
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Comment: Munich Re's 'poor optics' on insurability in an era of climate change
14 November 2024Board member Achim Kassow discussed climate change and insurability in Singapore last week
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Lloyd's launches Canadian fixed income solution on investment platform
27 June 2024Fund managed by Fiera Capital has signed Brit and Ki as cornerstone investors
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Comment: 'Saving democracy' may be the next ESG investment frontier for CIOs
05 June 2024Underwriters are defending democratic values in words and deeds, will CIOs follow suit?
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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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CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'
02 May 2024In severe 'Nat Cat years' before 2023, CIOs at Lloyd's acted as 'cash registers', disgorging cash to meet steep property claims. Last year, a 'break in the weather' let them 'take stock', and many seized that 'down-time' to progress climate-investing with managers and funds
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The other 'hiking' - Lloyd's syndicate CIOs trek further 'off the beaten path' for alternatives
25 April 2024Yields on core fixed income may have improved with rate hikes of recent years, but some Lloyd's syndicate CIOs have ventured further from the well-trod path, searching for alternatives, as David Walker discovers