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  • IAR Real Assets conference: Macro risk down, but complacence risk on the rise

    01 April 2024

    Insurers discussed the current macro-economic environment and implications for investing in real assets at Insurance Asset Risk conference

  • Insurance Asset Risk investing in real assets 2024 conference round up

    14 March 2024

    Panellists discuss opportunities unlocked by regulation, highlighting sectors, geographies and assets they are considering investing in

  • IAR Real Assets: Perfect landing expected in the US, but we're still circling the runway, Swiss Re says

    14 March 2024

    ERGO group finding investing in ESG infrastructure more difficult than expected

  • Insurers face "pressure in the pipes" of the metaphorical plumbing of the financial system

    28 March 2023

    Panellists say at Insurance Asset Risk investing in real assets conference

  • Inflation - simply transitory or a permanent headache on the horizon?

    15 June 2022

    The debate on whether current inflation is a transitory phenomenon or a structural shift came to life at Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2022 conference, where panelists discussed potential investment implication of each scenarios.

  • IAR EMEA: Supply of govvies to remain low

    18 October 2021

    But is it a worry for insurance investors?

  • "We decided we were going to see equity positions through the crisis," Ergo's Fiedler says

    20 October 2020

    IAR 2020 EMEA: Ergo group head of SAA says credit was more worrying when virus broke out

  • Investment challenges arising from shifting insurance business models, part II

    02 July 2019

    In the second part of a two-part article, European insurers discuss the growth of unit-link business, the impact of technology and the shift from defined benefits pensions to defined contributions. Compiled by David Walker

  • Investment challenges arising from shifting insurance business models

    26 June 2019

    At Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2019 conference European insurers discuss as part of a panel the shifts in insurance business models and the ramification for investments strategies. In this first part of a two-part series, they discuss the ongoing consolidation in the market. Compiled by David Walker

  • The 'obscure' Solvency II co-investment rule

    30 April 2019

    Recent changes to co-investing rules under Solvency II have been received with mixed feelings by European insurers. Many players are even unaware there has been a development. Vincent Huck reports