Archive

  • First Fed rate cut set for September, Pimco says

    02 August 2024

    After FOMC's decision Wednesday to hold rates between 5.25% and 5.5% for now

  • Chart of the Week - Re/insurers ponder 'what if' about looming US elections

    26 July 2024

    Tokio Marine AM has set out four scenarios for November and the possible effects on key policy and economic variables

  • Asset managers make sense of Jackson Hole speeches

    30 August 2023

    Invesco strategist sees Fed's hawkish talk as a front, thinks further rate rises unlikely

  • Chart of the week - Sharp volatility hits interest rate risk SCR, in CIOs' market risk budgets

    23 September 2022

    Insurance Risk Data reveals, at a time of rising interest rates, just how hard CIOs are working to control the risk

  • Stagflation a real threat for 2022, says Swiss Re

    02 December 2021

    A 1970s scenario would have serious effects for US insurers

  • The low rate crunch

    28 June 2021

    You can't get away from low rates if you are an insurer. But how bad is the low rate environment for the industry? Well the devil's in the detail as Sarfraz Thind finds out.

  • Negative rates needed to stave off crisis, warns SCOR Investment Partners CIO

    07 June 2019

    Fed chairs decision not to increase rates should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism