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Insurers need high-tech solutions in a low-liquidity world
26 March 2019Peter Cornax, senior insurance investment strategist at AllianceBernstein, looks at how technology can solve illiquidity challenges as well as make investment teams faster and smarter
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Is it really a small world after all? Protectionism strikes back
21 March 2019Most insurers’ chief investment officers and asset managers have grown up investing during the long trend of beneficial globalisation. The trend was their friend. But as evidence of its unravelling builds, they are asking if the elastic is just stretching or about to snap back. Vincent Huck went in search of answers
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As the credit cycle enters its later stages, insurers prepare for its end
19 March 2019With global growth expected to slow down this year and some predicting a US recession in 2020, the health of the credit market, its ability to cope with rate rises and a loss of liquidity, holds huge significance to insurers investments. Adam Leach reports
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Lack of uniformity in sensitivity analysis raises questions
14 March 2019While some insurers prepare for full force hurricanes, others get ready for light showers. Insurance Risk Data reveals the extend of diversity in the stress test, and why it might be of concern. David Walker reports
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The BBB effect: apocalypse or opportunity?
12 March 2019US insurers are holding bigger volumes of BBB-rated corporate debt than at any time in the past. A turning credit cycle could tip significant amounts of these to junk. But while the headline figures look startling, is this really a precursor to the apocalypse or just another bad news story? Sarfraz Thind reports
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French insurers partner up for major unlisted SME funding initiative
07 March 2019From Axa France to BNP Paribas Cardif and CNP Assurances, France’s largest have helped unlock €22.2bn of fund-based investments for French small caps. Their early-stage returns may be unclear. But their ambitions for the next phase of their investment is only the greater, the heavy hitters tell Vincent Huck
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Asian insurance AuM gold rush
05 March 2019Regulatory changes in Asia combined with challenging local market conditions are teasing Asian insurers’ interest in diversifying their investments abroad, this could be a gold rush for Western asset managers. Vincent Huck reports
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Pomona’s private equity niche
28 February 2019Pomona Capital’s founder, Michael Granoff explains how his company has tapped into the private equity niche and how it is preparing for a potential turn in the cycle. Interview by Sarfraz Thind
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At the helm of Europe's giant general account
26 February 2019Pascal Christory, chief investment officer at Axa Group, describes the difficult balance between centralisation and flexibility in an international group's investment strategy. Interview by David Walker
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Transitioning from Libor: complex questions and no answers
21 February 2019The discontinuation of Libor will affect trillions of contracts across the global financial industry, Insurance Asset Risk reveals the scope of the impact on insurers and the unanswerable question they face in a transition period filled with uncertainty. Vincent Huck reports
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