Analysis

  • Insurers worldwide seek lessons from LA's infernos

    05 March 2025

    From California to Australia, stakeholders in assessing, covering and combatting wildfire risk tell David Walker lessons will be learned from Los Angeles's horrors

  • Time is a jet plane: Are investors keeping cool in the head-spinning Trump era?

    03 March 2025

    The US president has not even been in power for 50 days, and yet everything is changing fast

  • Insurers have fortified their RE debt platforms - and now rival banks

    26 February 2025

    With banks retrenching from RE debt thanks to regulation, insurers are fortifying their positions and building out their platforms - with Europe set to become more like the US market

  • Why non-life CIOs may struggle in fight for APAC's spare capital

    24 February 2025

    An APAC bond yield of 2.4%? Or an insurance operation's 19%? Take your pick...

  • A river runs through it

    19 February 2025

    For all the political noise against ESG, asset managers tell Insurance Asset Risk nothing has changed, and their sustainability offerings and strategies are seeing an insatiable demand

  • How can an asset manager provide an insurer with the best custom fit?

    17 February 2025

    James Bradbury, business development manager on Wellington Management's EMEA insurance team, tells David Walker how the manager's bespoke solutions are cut to fit its customers

  • Insurers now taking a more blended approach to public and private investing, Barings says

    12 February 2025

    Insurance Asset Risk sat down with Patrick O'Sullivan, head of international insurance solutions at investment manager Barings to discuss his role and the sector's changing approach to investing in private markets.

  • Real estate market back to basics

    10 February 2025

    Values in the private markets have corrected signaling an encouraging outlook for real estate investors, Andrew Angeli, global head of real estate research and strategy at Zurich, says

  • Are gilts failing to shine for institutional investors?

    05 February 2025

    RLAM comments on the state of play in gilt yields ahead of the BoE's next rate cut decision

  • Will the NAIC's new regulations change insurer's attitudes to private credit investments?

    03 February 2025

    David Zhang, director at New York-based advisory firm MSCI, discusses how US insurers are coping with a torrent of new regulation from the NAIC