Archive

  • Insurance Risk Data publishes non-life insurance investment report

    14 November 2019

    Topics covered include outsourcing patterns and increased appetite for illiquids

  • How low and how long?

    14 November 2019

    Low interest rates are here to stay, might be the only consensus in the insurance investment market right now. But how low and how long will they stay remains an unanswered question. A panel of two economists and a consultant tried to provide some answers. Vincent Huck reports

  • Increase in illiquids a pivotal development for insurer asset management

    13 November 2019

    Nearly all large European insurers looking to boost illiquid allocations, AM Best finds

  • Munich Re promotes Oliver Horbelt to US CFO

    13 November 2019

    Reports to US chief executive, Tony Kuczinski

  • Risk of Japanification is not a worst case, Swiss Re chief economists say

    13 November 2019

    Haegeli and Holzheu predict increased allocation to illliquids and non-EU assets for European insurers

  • Australia’s general insurers near 10% return on investments

    13 November 2019

    Ranking of portfolio size shows top-heavy industry

  • Take a guess: 10-year German bund yields at the end of 2021?

    13 November 2019

    Munich Re chief economist gives his view

  • BaFin says life firms cannot avoid sovereigns, 'with or without yield'

    13 November 2019

    German life insurers also warned on careful risk management on alternative investments

  • AllianzGI CEO Andreas Utermann to step down

    12 November 2019

    Tobias Pross and Deborah Zurbow to replace Utermann as CEO and head of investments respectively

  • Comment: Cover this govvy which I may not behold

    12 November 2019

    The momentum around responsible investing will achieve nothing if insurers don’t address the bulk of their investment holdings namely government bonds, Vincent Huck writes. The 17th century French playwriter Molière has his say, too.