Archive

  • Historic correlation assumptions set to change, actuaries warned

    02 May 2024

    Function of commodities and interest rates in portfolios may be tested in new world order

  • Comment - Insurance regulators confront crypto currencies

    02 May 2024

    Pronouncements by watchdogs about digital tenders seem to be softening, though not warming, to the asset class

  • Hong Kong regulator sets out stance on insurers' capital and crypto asset investments

    02 May 2024

    But door perhaps left ajar, for central banks' digital currencies

  • CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'

    02 May 2024

    In severe 'Nat Cat years' before 2023, CIOs at Lloyd's acted as 'cash registers', disgorging cash to meet steep property claims. Last year, a 'break in the weather' let them 'take stock', and many seized that 'down-time' to progress climate-investing with managers and funds

  • Inflation uncertainty underestimated by market, Ardea IM says

    01 May 2024

    Bond volatility structurally higher than it has been for most of the post-GFC era, Gopi Karunakaran, co-chief investment officer, tells Insurance Asset Risk

  • BMA regulatory reforms get thumbs up from Fitch

    01 May 2024

    Agency says changes support insurer credit profiles, while cautioning against regulatory arbitrage

  • Investec Real Estate appoints new head of private client lending

    01 May 2024

    Shivani Goolab takes on role

  • LGIM makes £46.1m supermarket purchase

    01 May 2024

    Acquires Dorset Tesco property from clients of abrdn

  • French insurers emphasise liquid investing, as lapse risk keeps biting

    01 May 2024

    French insurers emphasise liquid investing, as lapse risk keeps biting

  • Making sense of social impact metrics for investment decisions

    01 May 2024

    Can investors create a single, comparable social impact metric for their investments - and does it even make sense to try?