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  • AIA Group works with BlackRock to enhance investment management process

    17 July 2024

    Insurer to use BNY's data management services

  • Insurers still keen on private markets in spite of public yields

    27 September 2023

    Research from asset manager BlackRock finds 89% of insurers plan to increase allocations to private markets over the next two years

  • Cash divides insurers' allocation strategies

    01 August 2023

    Mapfre and Scor both reduced cash this year as many champion the asset class

  • Asia's CIOs face up to having to 'know it all'

    03 July 2023

    Insurance investors discuss the lessons learned from the last few years of severe volatility, and reveal what [Chat] 'GPT' actually stands for, at Insurance Asset Risk's Hong Kong Seminar 2023. Compiled by Vincent Huck

  • IAR Hong Kong: "I know more about accountancy than I care to know," APAC CIO says

    29 June 2023

    Zurich's Vincent and AIA's Konyn reflect on how CIOs have had to become omni-experts

  • 60% of insurers set to increase tech investments

    15 November 2021

    Risk management and climate change risk are key drivers in the increased spending

  • Investment risk a necessity for insurers

    15 November 2021

    60% of insurers to increase risk in next two years, Blackrock survey finds

  • No coal, no cry

    AIA group chief investment officer, Mark Konyn, discusses the pan-Asian insurers' decision to exit coal and the latest ESG investing developments in Asia. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Bitcoin: blowing bubbles or truly sticky?

    18 January 2021

    Bitcoin is steaming into the stratosphere—and many want in. But is this speculative bubble going to appeal to insurers? Sarfraz Thind finds out.

  • Cryptocurrency investment "constantly debated" at AIA, group CIO admits

    12 January 2021

    But Mark Konyn tells Insurance Asset Risk no investment on the cards "any time soon"