Analysis

• Blending art and science to build investment risk frameworks at Enstar

  06 May 2024

  Roman Halfin, investment risk officer at Enstar, explains why non-economic risks have overtaken economic ones in 2024 and how he contributes to the US insurer's investment decisions process

  

• CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'

  02 May 2024

  In severe 'Nat Cat years' before 2023, CIOs at Lloyd's acted as 'cash registers', disgorging cash to meet steep property claims. Last year, a 'break in the weather' let them 'take stock', and many seized that 'down-time' to progress climate-investing with managers and funds

  

• Making sense of social impact metrics for investment decisions

  01 May 2024

  Can investors create a single, comparable social impact metric for their investments - and does it even make sense to try?

  

• CIO Interview: From politics to sustainability, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder

  29 April 2024

  In the second part of Insurance Asset Risk's interview with José Luis Jiménez, Mapfre's CIO talks about the difficulties around defining sustainability, and the thorny issue of managing political and geographical risk in an era that has proven to be irrepressibly unpredictable.

  

• The other 'hiking' - Lloyd's syndicate CIOs trek further 'off the beaten path' for alternatives

  25 April 2024

  Yields on core fixed income may have improved with rate hikes of recent years, but some Lloyd's syndicate CIOs have ventured further from the well-trod path, searching for alternatives, as David Walker discovers

  

• CIO Interview: I don't believe in a soft landing, Mapfre CIO José Luis Jiménez says

  22 April 2024

  "I've always thought it's a shame that Madrid doesn't have a beach," is just one of several sweeping observations that Insurance Asset Risk makes while waiting to sit down (virtually) with José Luis Jiménez, Mapfre's long-standing CIO.

  

• "Bonds are back" - Goldilocks appears for Lloyd's syndicates' fixed income holdings

  18 April 2024

  Not a big bad bear was in sight when syndicates published annual reports in March, but many warned of elevated geopolitical instability risks

  

• Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights

  17 April 2024

  The Bank of Japan may have stolen the limelight last month, but insurance CIOs made headlines as well, with eye-catching allocations to non-mainstream assets and emerging managers

  

• On the merry-go-round of asset classes, with Generali Group's CIO Francesco Martorana

  15 April 2024

  In the second part of this interview, Generali group CIO Francesco Martorana discusses on the merry-go-round of asset classes the Italian giant invests in, and provides an outlook for the next 12 to 18 months

  

• What lurks below - Lloyd's syndicates shine a light on 'level 3' illiquid holdings

  11 April 2024

  While liquid bonds dominate syndicates' general accounts, liquidity analysis reveals there is more to investment portfolios at Lloyd's