Analysis

  • Springing back to life - JGB yields help Japan's CIOs repatriate GAs

    01 March 2023

    It's been an awfully long time coming, but yields on long-dated JGBs are becoming genuinely attractive to many Japanese CIOs - maybe for the first time in their careers, David Walker reports

  • The rise of the chief liquidity officer?

    28 February 2023

    Moving away from traditional assets has raised scrutiny of liquidity risk management. Is there a need for a chief liquidity officer? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Comment: NAIC's CLO Model - A communal path to policy design

    22 February 2023

    By Amnon Levy and Brett Manning

  • Oliver Bäte offers comfort, reassurance and hope

    21 February 2023

    With Structured Alpha 'behind' it, Allianz is applying the lessons learned to best effect, it told analysts at this month's full-year results presentation. David Walker reports

  • Insurers' investment risk 'in the raw' - laid bare in capital charge patterns

    15 February 2023

    Some fairly simple maths reveals the average pre-diversified capital charge that CIOs across Europe paid for their general account investing in 2020 and 2021. David Walker dug out the data

  • Comment - BMA picks up the 'big stick' for Bermuda's CIOs

    13 February 2023

    The regulator's announcement on illiquids and alternatives was all-stick-no-carrot, but will the BMA bite not just bark, at CIOs?

  • Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires? (Part 2)

    08 February 2023

    A market view on ESG, by Corrado Pistarino, chief investment officer at Foresters Friendly Society

  • Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires? (Part 1)

    06 February 2023

    A market view on ESG, by Corrado Pistarino, chief investment officer at Foresters Friendly Society

  • Case study: Gjensidige applies basic economics to net-zero

    01 February 2023

    Norwegian insurer Gjensidige has been running an experimental portfolio attempting to reach carbon price neutrality. Their former CIO, now chairman of Gjensidige Pensjonsforsikring, and one of their investment analysts discuss the initial findings. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • NZAOA expands target setting protocol to govvies and PE

    31 January 2023

    Report authors Swiss Re's Bolli and Allianz IM's Riese discuss the key considerations of the protocol third edition. Interview by Vincent Huck

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