Archive

  • Comment - Do inflation-linked bonds cover the rate of 'claims inflation' in kidnapping ransoms?

    05 June 2023

    The clouded world of insurance for the costs of ending kidnaps raises some intriguing questions

  • NN Group extends new investment restrictions to conventional oil and gas companies

    02 June 2023

    Signalling potential for divestment from existing investee companies showing lack of progress

  • Caution and patience watchwords for US insurers, Conning says

    02 June 2023

    Recession is "bubbling under," according to head of structured products

  • Conning promotes Matt Daly to head of North America

    01 June 2023

    Cindy Beaulieu named CIO of Conning North America

  • CDPQ and other Quebec investors pledge $300m in sustainability fund

    31 May 2023

    Investi Fund was launched by Innocap and Finance Montréal

  • BlackRock, Conning and NEAM most popular asset managers for US insurers

    26 April 2023

    Half of insurers outsourced assets to unaffiliated AMs last year

  • VIG near doubles green bond investments in 2022 to €829m

    21 April 2023

    Signals future focus on sustainable property with proceeds from own bond issuance investments

  • 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

  • Proposed Dutch rent regulation lacks sustainability weighting, NN Group says

    10 April 2023

    Plans to extend rent control regulation to the mid-market might seem helpful to Dutch citizens in want of more affordable housing, but it might have a chilling effect on investments into the market, Josh Adcock reports

  • 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