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Revisiting liquidity risk in times of high interest rates and banking failures
30 October 2023Panellists at Insurance Risk and Capital Bermuda 2023 conference discuss their approach to liquidity risk as regulatory scrutiny increases and market volatility provides challenges
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Hydrogen on the way up?
25 October 2023Insurers 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?
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In the Know - Schroders' Alberto Scarsini
23 October 2023A 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
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Insurance Asset Risk Americas: Regulatory Risk
18 October 2023Panellists 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.
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Insurance Asset Risk's Responsible Investing for Insurers conference round up
16 October 2023The conference was held in London on 16 October and highlighted the challenges and dilemmas insurers face in building and implementing sustainable investment strategies
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Volatility blows in Outsourced CIO sails
11 October 2023The 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.
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Designing natural capital funds for insurers' investment needs
09 October 2023Launched 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.
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Opportunities galore for US CIOs, but worries of what's coming call for caution
04 October 2023Chief 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
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Are utilities a more risky business than investors think?
02 October 2023With 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?
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Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference round up
26 September 2023The conference was held in New York on 26 September and highlighted key opportunities in private markets as well as challenges in the regulatory space
- Insurers hopeful Solvency II LTE reform will unlock €100bn RE opportunity
- NAIC takes aim at insurer investment subsidiaries
- Expect NAIC to shift gears on RBC reform in 2026, Wellington Management says
- The savings illusion: why Europe needs investment, not deposits - and the insurers' role
- Solvency II changes a "meaningful step" for securitised assets' allure, S&P says
- Expect lower growth in 2026 - but AI bubble not about to burst, Aviva Investors says
- Generali's Infranity invests in Irish independent power producer
- Private credit: are headline news and underlying performance one and the same?
- Private credit: an evolution of skills, a revolution of relations
- Canada Life completes £330m buy-in with Comet pension scheme