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  • Phoenix Group and Schroders to launch new private markets investment manager

    31 July 2024

    With £1bn initial commitment; up to £2.5bn over three years

  • Election day: How ballot box results are transforming a CIO's job

    04 July 2024

    As geopolitics is "literally shaping markets day-in and day-out", and UK and French electors choose their next governments, Insurance Asset Risk analyses what geopolitical instability might mean for CIOs

  • Insurers fighting an "arms race" over private credit, Phoenix's CIO says

    01 July 2024

    Hiscox and Just Group CIOs tell the Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2024 conference why it is important to keep external asset managers on their toes, particularly when it comes to private assets

  • Fireside chat with Phoenix's Eakins: The days of insurance investments run by actuaries are gone

    12 June 2024

    Covering geopolitics, macro, AI and sustainability

  • Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2024 conference round up

    10 June 2024

    Geopolitics and its impact on markets running thread of conference's discussions

  • IAR EMEA 2024: Not enough private assets to match BPA liabilities, Just Group says

    10 June 2024

    Adding opportunities need to be created by restructuring assets to suit needs

  • IAR EMEA 2024: Phoenix's Eakins warns of the risk of monetary policy divergence

    10 June 2024

    As "supercharged" US economy contrasts with the other side of the Atlantic

  • Solvency UK reform should boost insurer lending to real-economy, Mike Eakins says

    13 February 2024

    Changes to matching adjustment should achieve aim of increasing regional investment

  • Market volatility is our friend, and 2024 set to be one of the most volatile years, Phoenix CIO Eakins says

    12 February 2024

    Phoenix eyes more investment in UK social housing as a result of matching adjustment reforms, and Eakins says regulatory changes should allow insurer to focus more investment on productive assets

  • Rising rates keep CIOs on their toes

    13 July 2023

    Inflation-fighting rate hikes in many economies have subtly, but significantly, affected investors' priorities, Insurance Asset Risk's 2023 EMEA conference heard last week. It remains hard to pick the likely trajectory, and appropriate reaction, as Josh Adcock reports