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  • IAR North America 2024: Geopolitics and recession top of audience's risk concerns

    18 September 2024

    Panellists at Insurance Risk and Capital Americas 2024 react

  • Overdue, healthy, market correction suggest overblown fear of recession

    14 August 2024

    The recent market correction has been a healthy one that's shaken markets out of their complacency, according to Zurich, and the environment is still supportive of investment in US equities - as long as volatility doesn't stay for too long

  • Insurers welcome UK political stability

    16 July 2024

    But investment opportunities will depend on discipline and detail

  • Insurers divided on scale of inflation challenge and interest rate trajectory

    23 May 2024

    RLAM predicts era of "spiky" inflation, as disappointing UK CPI figures come in

  • Zurich favours US equities over credit despite investor complacency across both asset classes

    12 April 2024

    Market rate cut expectations closer to reality than last year, but cracks beginning to form in the "perfect picture" landing scenario

  • Are we there yet?

    21 August 2023

    Central bank base rates continue to climb to decades-long highs over the summer, leaving market participants in a blur as to how far away the peak is

  • Where is the wind blowing?

    08 June 2023

    The financial market is divided on the likelihood of a recession and the future direction of travel for interest rates. Josh Adcock reports