Archive

  • MEAG reorganizes public markets team

    23 February 2021

    Affiliate under pressure from parent, Insurance Asset Risk understands

  • MEAG appoints two CIOs and restructures alternatives business

    18 May 2020

    Munich Re's affiliate appoints heads of alternative assets and public markets investments

  • JP Morgan Asset Management makes senior changes

    27 March 2020

    Bryan Wallace to become head of international fixed income insurance and pensions

  • Will BBB come back to bite?

    17 September 2019

    Is the end of the credit cycle really in sight and, if so, are European insurers at risk of seeing their high yield assets coming back to bite them? A wave of credit downgrades could significantly impact solvency ratios and put insurers in the position of forced sellers. But how worried should they be? Vincent Huck reports

  • Lower Solvency II charge for equities holds little appeal – JPMAM’s Haslip

    20 March 2019

    Idea of long-term equity interesting but unlikely to change insurers approach, says JP Morgan head of insurance

  • Transitioning from Libor: complex questions and no answers

    21 February 2019

    The discontinuation of Libor will affect trillions of contracts across the global financial industry, Insurance Asset Risk reveals the scope of the impact on insurers and the unanswerable question they face in a transition period filled with uncertainty. Vincent Huck reports

  • Outlook 2019: Diversification is the only free lunch left in town

    27 December 2018

    Prashant Sharma, head of international fixed income insurance at JP Morgan Asset Management, predicts a slowdown in growth for 2019, but all is not lost for insurers’ assets and a bit of forward thinking and preparation could help the resilience of their investments in the case of a downturn.

  • The calm before the storm: 'Investors should be worried'

    06 September 2017

    Some investors and analysts have been surprised by the calmness of financial markets at a time of political and economic uncertainty. Sarfraz Thind talks to seven senior investment professionals working with insurance assets about their prognosis for the future.

  • Why bond market liquidity is back on the worry list

    28 September 2016

    JP Morgan Asset Management's Prashant Sharma and Bryan Wallace on why insurance investors must accept structurally lower liquidity in bond markets, and how they can navigate the new asset landscape.

  • Brexit credit spread widening biggest threat to UK insurer balance sheets

    28 June 2016

    Spread widening and rating migration increasing pressure