Analysis

• Having fun with private equity investments

  30 January 2023

  A small French mutual insurer tells Insurance Asset Risk how it has become one of the few insurers to make the most of the long-term equity rule in Solvency II... and how it had fun in the process. Vincent Huck reports

  

• Pension Insurance Corporation foray into infrastructure assets

  25 January 2023

  From financing social housing to helping the London School of Economics build sustainably, to UK trainline rolling stock, PIC is full-steam ahead on debt investments, as Elizabeth Cain, head of debt origination there, explains to David Walker

  

• CRO Perspectives: forty years in the markets

  23 January 2023

  In the first in a series of perspectives for Insurance Asset Risk, Nick Silitch, CRO at Prudential Financial, draws on his experience of 40 years to give thoughts on where the global economy is—and where it is headed. Compiled by Sarfraz Thind

  

• CIOs prepare for 'symmetric warfare' over listed shareholdings

  18 January 2023

  Europe's regulators are discussing almost doubling how far they allow the equities 'symmetric adjustment' to fluctuate. David Walker examines the implications for CIOs' capital consumption

  

• Comment - Does a CIO need to be 'truly' brave?

  16 January 2023

  Investing can take a steely nerve, but David Walker explores why it sometimes also requires true bravery

  

• Zurich's surprisingly optimistic 2023 outlook after dire year

  11 January 2023

  Guy Miller, chief market strategist at Zurich, discuss the insurer's 2023 outlook as the WEF publishes its annual global risk report. Interview by Vincent Huck

  

• Going off-piste - how French CIOs are embracing alternatives

  10 January 2023

  As French insurers venture 'off-piste' in their general accounts, David Walker examines if the 'black runs' of alternative asset classes will be simply exciting - or could break a leg or two

  

• Comment - Why stranded assets (already) involves much more than fossil fuels in general accounts

  04 January 2023

  Insurance Asset Risk hears properties are being 'stranded' as much as fossil fuel firms

  

• AllianzGI offers hope for a brighter 2023

  02 January 2023

  It has been a tough year for investors. Equities in particular have been jolted from one low to the next. So what can the markets expect from 2023? AllianzGI's global CIO for equities, Virginie Maisonneuve, gives her thoughts. Interview by Sarfraz Thind

  

• Comment - How EIOPA helps Europe's insurers 'keep up with the Kardashians'

  28 December 2022

  EIOPA - and, separately, Insurance Risk Data - is helping practitioners to learn the latest about Europe's insurers, and their outsourcing preferences. By David Walker