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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
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Syndicate linked to hedgie David Einhorn halves losses in 2023
11 April 2024Lloyd's syndicate backs fintechs backed by Einhorn's reinsurer
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Apollo CFO appointed to Lloyd's syndicate executive directorships
09 April 2024Appointments were pending regulatory nods last week
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MS Amlin syndicate rings changes in outsourcing arrangements
09 April 2024PE secondaries were on syndicate 2001's buy-list, in 2023
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Comment: Tokio Marine's general account gets set to cover Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos
09 April 2024Japanese CIO is investing to insure some very long-haul travel policies
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Lloyd's syndicate CIOs to the rescue - how general accounts could offset underwriting losses in 2023
03 April 2024A few syndicates that lost money underwriting in 2023 found salvation, in their general account performance