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  • Singapore to pilot-test new capital charges for sustainable infrastructure

    05 November 2024

    MAS chairman says pilot test will aid "greater allocation" to such assets

  • Man Group notes potential benefits for Hong Kong CIOs considering infrastructure

    30 October 2024

    Man Group's Max Davies awaiting details on criteria, geography and ESG facets of any capital benefits from IA

  • A new dawn? Contemplating asset strategy anew, after the BOJ's seismic policy shift

    06 June 2024

    At a historic policy inflexion point in Japan - the Bank of Japan raising interest rates and relinquishing its long-held negative-rates stance - Man Group's Max Davies discusses interest rates, duration, FX hedging and CIOs' ongoing hunt for yield with David Walker

  • Mutual gain - how the worlds of 'alts' and insurers can benefit both parties

    11 March 2024

    CIOs have not relinquished alternative investments as interest rates rose, leading David Walker to sit down with Max Davies, director, APAC Insurance, at Man Group, to discuss how 'alts' can dovetail with an insurer's needs

  • Man hires two to insurance solutions group

    18 September 2023

    Reporting to Nick Humphreys, global head of insurance

  • Chart of the week: IFRS 9 classification conundrum in APAC

    14 April 2023

    As IFRS 17 and 9 tops Asian insurers' priority lists, according to Abrdn survey

  • Asian insurers investing "thoughtfully" under RBC, Wellington says

    11 April 2022

    From HK RBC to K-ICS to C-ROSS, capital regimes are informing decisions across APAC

  • How optimising for Hong Kong RBC is music to a CIO's ears

    16 February 2022

    General accounts investments ideally work in harmony. Hong Kong's CIOs, the 'conductors' seeking such harmony, explain to David Walker approaching RBC rules require some 'GA fine-tuning'

  • "You can't have everything": can CIOs strike a balance between ESG and returns?

    26 January 2022

    Panellists at IAR's Asia conference discuss sacrificing balance sheets, for better ESG credentials, as Abbie Wood reports

  • IAR Asia 2022: Day 3 round up

    13 January 2022

    The battleground for ESG investing and the future of ESG in Asia