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Conning maps out landscape and attractions of esoteric ABS for insurers
03 April 2025From music royalties to container leases, data centres to aircraft leases, esoteric ABS has something to offer every insurer
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'Even bigger than Allianz' - An $11.2trn 'general account' in Europe prepares to tackle climate change
02 April 2025To help private re/insurers, and society, face down global warming, Europe's governments are increasingly backing public re/insurers, David Walker finds
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IAR Real Assets roundup: Volatility and slow growth threaten vibrancy of sector
31 March 2025With much of the uncertainty issuing from the White House
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Sub-IG allocation under the Solvency UK sun
27 March 2025With a smoothing of the BBB-cliff, are UK insurers better placed to invest in sub-IG assets?
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Privates, privates and more privates, insurers tell GSAM
25 March 202514th annual global insurance survey also reveals changed views on inflation and US recession
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Time and experience are making CIO's plans for private assets much more intricate
19 March 2025According to Nuveen's latest EQuilibrium Global Institutional Investor Survey, insurers are getting much savvier at building private markets portfolios, but could anything blow them of course?
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Scottish Widows' head of RI on AI and AMs' voting records
17 March 2025Eva Cairns, head of responsible investment at Scottish Widows, explains the firm's governance policy around AI and the outcome of expecting voting policy adherence from asset managers
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Insurers double down on defence spending, while maintaining ESG exclusions
12 March 2025ESG and defence investments not mutually exclusive, insurers suggest, as NATO powers commit to spend more
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It will take more than Solvency tweaks to mobilise capital in UK plc
10 March 2025Private sector stakeholders highlight the need for more effective blended finance solutions at ABI annual conference
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Insurers worldwide seek lessons from LA's infernos
05 March 2025From California to Australia, stakeholders in assessing, covering and combatting wildfire risk tell David Walker lessons will be learned from Los Angeles's horrors
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- IAR Real Assets: Insurers "walking away" from infra transactions due to pricing
- AIG to increase private assets allocation to boost slowing investment income
- Japan Post Insurance cedes asset risk in $3.7bn Bermuda reinsurance deal
- Blackstone-backed Ki syndicate at Lloyd's fires for alternatives manager
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- Nippon Life begins direct lending to decarbonising companies
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