Analysis

• Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) KPIs for Alternative Investments under SFDR

  21 September 2023

  2023 has been an extremely important year for Article 4 SFDR investors in the EU such as life insurers, pension funds or alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs). They were required to publish the first Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) statement for the reference year in 2022 no later than 30 June 2023 so that now you have a lot to read on their websites.

  

• "The Fed's medicine is working"

  18 September 2023

  Ahead of his intervention at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference, Thomas Holzheu, chief economist Americas, deputy head of group economic research and strategy at Swiss Re, discusses the macro-economic and geopolitical outlook.

  

• CIOs to fasten seatbelts for bumpy landing as Fed spots runway

  13 September 2023

  "The Fed won't hike rates next week," former president of Kansas City Fed predicts. While asset owners are at odds on the likelihood of a recession and asset managers brace themselves for what will not be a "piece of (cheese)cake"

  

• Brookfield and insurance: a defence

  11 September 2023

  Brookfield has been looking to carve out a name for itself in the insurance world. Even as the company gets assailed by a critics its path to growth remains undimmed.

  

• Brookfield: the alternative traditionalist

  06 September 2023

  The influx of alternative managers into insurance has been one of the trends of the decade. Brookfield, which has scooped up three insurance mandates in the last 12 months, has a more conservative business model than many peers as Sachin Shah, chief executive of Brookfield Insurance Solutions, explains

  

• Smoke and mirrors exercise in assessing climate risk in sovereigns

  04 September 2023

  NZAOA puts draft fourth edition of target-setting protocol up for public consultation

  

• Momentum rising on stewardship engagement with sovereigns

  31 August 2023

  Thomas Dillon, head of sovereign ESG at Aviva Investors, discusses the lessons learned from the PRI's sovereign engagement on climate pilot initiatives, and the intricacies of engaging with finance ministers.

  

• Secret plans - CIOs reveal how market risk's SCR elements (should) develop in future

  30 August 2023

  Insurance Risk Data has unearthed strategic data about how Europe's insurers expect the six sub-modules of their market risk SCR to evolve out to 2026. David Walker investigates

  

• Insurance asset managers keep out of blue bonds' murky waters... for now

  28 August 2023

  Despite widespread praise of the recent Gabon blue bond transaction, AllianzGI and Axa IM reveal to Insurance Asset Risk why they ultimately didn't invest in it

  

• Smooth sailing for AllianzGI trade finance funds

  23 August 2023

  David Newman, CIO for global high yield at AllianzGI, discusses how recent storms haven't rocked the boat of trade finance as an asset class.