Analysis

  • IAR North America 2024 round up

    16 September 2024

    Insurance Risk and Capital Americas, an Insurance Asset Risk and InsuranceERM conference, took place on 16 September tackling regulation, private credit and illiquidity considerations amongst other topics

  • 2024: ESG Indicators (PAIs) Reach New Data Quality Heights for Alternative Investments"

    16 September 2024

    While discussions around "whether and how well alternative investments funds deliver Principal Adverse Impact KPIs (PAIs) via the European ESG Template (EET)" feel as if they happened just yesterday, EU Article 4 SFDR investors such as life insurers and pension funds already published their second PAI statement for 2023.

  • CIO Interview: Elo's Jonna Ryhänen

    11 September 2024

    Jonna Ryhänen has been CIO at Elo, one of Finland's largest pension insurance companies, since December of last year. Working out of Elo's HQ in Espoo, Finland's second city, Ryhänen took on a portfolio with assets under management worth around €30bn.

  • Illiquidity in Bermudian investment portfolios

    09 September 2024

    Bermudian groups' fair value hierarchies in 2023 analysed by Insurance Risk Data

  • Private market impact investing is no longer a PE, EM game

    04 September 2024

    Managers highlight impact opportunities in private credit and say blended finance is no longer the only way

  • Interview: Phoenix/Schroders JV - playing the trend

    02 September 2024

    Sam Tufts, head of strategy and solutions in the asset management team at Phoenix, discusses the joint venture with Schroders, its objectives and how it will work in practice

  • Comment: A new dawn in investment oversight: An update from the 2024 NAIC summer meeting

    28 August 2024

    Amnon Levy describes recent developments at the NAIC to modernize investment oversight

  • Trends in insurance are feeding into consolidation moves in asset management

    26 August 2024

    Moody's senior vice president Benjamin Serra discusses the latest trends in insurance and asset management and how they feed into each other

  • Did the Fed miss a trick?

    21 August 2024

    Headaches at the Fed and what they mean for insurers

  • Insurance and asset management - a marriage of convenience?

    19 August 2024

    Insurance Asset Risk analyses recent consolidations and sell-offs of AM units at European insurers