Archive

  • Radian names Sumita Pandit as CFO

    19 May 2023

    Will oversee investments for mortgage insurer

  • Sound Point hires Gunther Stein as CIO of US credit and CLO platform

    19 May 2023

    Follows asset manager's acquisition of Assured Guaranty's investment business last month

  • Chart of the week - how Italian lifers use GAs for lapse risk

    19 May 2023

    Italian SFCRs explain their liquidity planning, and its various methods, to meet a startling leap in lapse risk

  • Australia's MLC Life appoints new CIO

    19 May 2023

    Incumbent moving to AM in India with lifer's parent, Nippon Life

  • Aegon cites weak Chinese investor market as main cause for net asset outflows in Q1 2023

    18 May 2023

    Despite strong life insurance sales growth in the country

  • UK and EU set to fall behind US on sustainable infrastructure investments, Aviva Investors warns

    18 May 2023

    As US government subsidies and UK inefficiencies give businesses pause for thought

  • US debt ceiling drama strikes again

    18 May 2023

    Grubby politics are again featuring as the spoiler for financial market equilibrium. The US debt ceiling standoff seems to be an annual affair—but this one looks a lot more serious than those in the past. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • L&G agrees £2.7bn buy-in of British Steel pension scheme

    18 May 2023

    Assets will be managed by LGIM, taking total buy-in to £7.5bn since 2021

  • Benelux insurers' investment capital bills gyrate, in time with markets, in 2022

    18 May 2023

    Some insurers faced triple-digit hikes in interest rates SCRs as equities and spread risks dramatically gave way, David Walker reports

  • US still on track for recession, LGIM says

    18 May 2023

    Has escaped recession so far but further financial accidents could amplify downturn