Analysis

• Hydrogen on the way up?

  25 October 2023

  Insurers and their asset managers are taking tentative steps into the world of green hydrogen investing to capture a first mover premium and shore up net-zero strategies. But what's holding insurers back from flying away with the gas?

  

• In the Know - Schroders' Alberto Scarsini

  23 October 2023

  A background rooted firmly in the world of insurers and their investing habits has equipped Alberto Scarsini very well indeed, for advising EMEA and global insurers, at the asset manager Schroders, as David Walker discovers

  

• Insurance Asset Risk Americas: Regulatory Risk

  18 October 2023

  Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 discuss potential regulatory changes on the horizon, and what actions insurers are taking to prepare and ready their portfolios in response.

  

• Insurance Asset Risk's Responsible Investing for Insurers conference round up

  16 October 2023

  The conference was held in London on 16 October and highlighted the challenges and dilemmas insurers face in building and implementing sustainable investment strategies

  

• Volatility blows in Outsourced CIO sails

  11 October 2023

  The outsourcing chief investment officer world sometimes goes under the radar. Mercer's co-head of US insurance, Chris Tschida, explains how the OCIO giant works its magic and why its advice is needed now more than ever.

  

• Designing natural capital funds for insurers' investment needs

  09 October 2023

  Launched in 2020, Climate Asset Management designed two strategies one of which is focused on sourcing natural capital investment opportunities for insurers. Megan Reilly Cayten, senior investment manager, explains what the fund invests in, and why it has been more successful with European insurers than US ones.

  

• Opportunities galore for US CIOs, but worries of what's coming call for caution

  04 October 2023

  Chief investment officers at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference said investment opportunities had quadrupled compared to previous years, but diversification and flight to quality remains the game in town

  

• Are utilities a more risky business than investors think?

  02 October 2023

  With recent turbulence in the water utilities sector, the traditional image of utilities as low-risk, highly regulated and stable assets may have been upended - but do insurers still view the sector as a safe bet?

  

• Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference round up

  26 September 2023

  The conference was held in New York on 26 September and highlighted key opportunities in private markets as well as challenges in the regulatory space

  

• Bought-into the PRT market hype?

  25 September 2023

  Pension risk transfers in the US have seen record years, a trend set to continue in 2023. Aon senior partner Ari Jacobs discusses the drivers for that boom.