Archive

  • Payden & Rygel appoints Mercer veteran to investment team

    03 June 2024

    Niall Clifford takes up senior vice president position

  • Core competency - Lloyd's syndicates go outsourcing, and not just for peripheral assets

    08 May 2024

    Lloyd's syndicates hire external help for the core of their general accounts, even if delegating makes more headlines when non-mainstream assets are involved

  • Lloyd's syndicate CIOs to the rescue - how general accounts could offset underwriting losses in 2023

    03 April 2024

    A few syndicates that lost money underwriting in 2023 found salvation, in their general account performance

  • Lloyd's of London gives mandate for first liquid fixed income strategy to Payden & Rygel

    21 March 2024

    Lloyd's of London gives mandate for first liquid fixed income strategy to Payden & Rygel

  • Lloyd's launches first public asset fund solution

    05 February 2024

    Fund is latest to be added to the Lloyd's investment platform

  • 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

  • Probitas syndicate promotes Conning as syndicate's lead outsourcing partner

    04 April 2023

    Has three other managers in supporting roles

  • US insurers warmly welcome outsourced managers for climate change investing

    06 January 2021

    US insurers are buying ever more services from asset managers, data vendors and research houses to help understand climate change and inform their investment decisions, David Walker discovers.

  • Lloyd's syndicates open up about investment outsourcing

    11 April 2019

    Research by Insurance Risk Data reveals the 2018 winners and losers of the mandated asset managers for Lloyd's syndicates. David Walker reports on who won which mandates, who received applause and who wasn't that lucky.

  • Alternatives shine for Lloyd's syndicates

    05 April 2017

    Following the insights gleaned on rising manager fees and falling yields for Lloyd's syndicates, David Walker shines light on the well-performing fraction of alternative investments made by the sector in 2015.