Analysis

  • AAM, playing the long game

    28 February 2022

    John Schaefer, chief executive, says the insurance-focused asset manager will continue to maintain a client-first dictum. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Insurance ALM turns 160 years old!

    24 February 2022

    Today marks the 160th anniversary of what is believed to be the first actuarial paper on asset-liability management.... but has anything really changed since 1862? Vincent Huck blows out the candles, and gets reading...

  • Insurers define the 'central bank gambit'

    21 February 2022

    In an environment of heightened inflation and rising rates, should insurers play defensively against the central banks' next moves?

  • How optimising for Hong Kong RBC is music to a CIO's ears

    16 February 2022

    General accounts investments ideally work in harmony. Hong Kong's CIOs, the 'conductors' seeking such harmony, explain to David Walker approaching RBC rules require some 'GA fine-tuning'

  • The US outsourcing race

    14 February 2022

    The last year seems to have brought more asset management firms than ever into the insurance outsourcing space. How difficult is it to break into this market? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Conning's scrabble bingo: AI, ESG, EMD, α

    09 February 2022

    Bringing AI to ESG in EMD may look like a hand in Scrabble, but as David Walker found out from Conning-owned asset manager Global Evolution, it's all about generating another letter: alpha

  • Vaccine equity: a case study in investor engagement

    07 February 2022

    Investors have asked pharma companies in a letter to address COVID vaccine equity. Two signatories, Achmea and Storebrand, reveal the content of their engagement toolbox to hold investee companies to account.

  • Navigating the ups and downs of alternative investments

    02 February 2022

    Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk Asia 2022 conference discuss the key to allocating successfully to alternatives. Vincent Huck reports

  • IFRS 17 and 9 - The tricky balance between local and group reporting

    31 January 2022

    Blake Sowerby, IFRS 17/9 programme manager, Asia region, at Generali, discusses with Vincent Huck the accounting standards' implementation and expected changes in insurers' investment behaviour

  • "You can't have everything": can CIOs strike a balance between ESG and returns?

    26 January 2022

    Panellists at IAR's Asia conference discuss sacrificing balance sheets, for better ESG credentials, as Abbie Wood reports