Archive

  • Comment: Munich Re's 'poor optics' on insurability in an era of climate change

    14 November 2024

    Board member Achim Kassow discussed climate change and insurability in Singapore last week

  • Lloyd's launches Canadian fixed income solution on investment platform

    27 June 2024

    Fund managed by Fiera Capital has signed Brit and Ki as cornerstone investors

  • Comment: 'Saving democracy' may be the next ESG investment frontier for CIOs

    05 June 2024

    Underwriters are defending democratic values in words and deeds, will CIOs follow suit?

  • 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

  • CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'

    02 May 2024

    In 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

  • The other 'hiking' - Lloyd's syndicate CIOs trek further 'off the beaten path' for alternatives

    25 April 2024

    Yields 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

  • Syndicate linked to hedgie David Einhorn halves losses in 2023

    11 April 2024

    Lloyd's syndicate backs fintechs backed by Einhorn's reinsurer

  • Apollo CFO appointed to Lloyd's syndicate executive directorships

    09 April 2024

    Appointments were pending regulatory nods last week

  • MS Amlin syndicate rings changes in outsourcing arrangements

    09 April 2024

    PE secondaries were on syndicate 2001's buy-list, in 2023

  • Comment: Tokio Marine's general account gets set to cover Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos

    09 April 2024

    Japanese CIO is investing to insure some very long-haul travel policies