Insurance Asset Risk Awards 2024 - North Americas

  • Alternatives manager of the year: Hamilton Lane

    Alternatives manager of the year: Hamilton Lane

    The company, which has over $920m in assets under management and supervision, has built up its product solutions offering to include direct equity, direct credit, secondaries, infrastructure, impact, venture, emerging manager and evergreen funds,...

  • Emerging markets manager of the year: Loomis Sayles

    Emerging markets manager of the year: Loomis Sayles

    This year's emerging markets (EM) manager of the year, Loomis Sayles, looks at the EM debt opportunity as offering a diversified source of high-quality carry, which is particularly critical for insurance companies...

  • Equity manager of the year: DWS

    Equity manager of the year: DWS

    The recipient of this year's Insurance Asset Risk Americas equity manager of the year award is DWS, for designing an investment strategy for a domestic property/casualty workers compensation insurer that was looking to diversify its US equity exposure.

  • CIO of the year - editorial choice: Nick Liolis (Guardian)

    CIO of the year - editorial choice: Nick Liolis (Guardian)

    The scale and innovative approach of this has deal won one of its chief architects - Liolis - Insurance Asset Risk's chief investment officer of the year award.

  • Fixed income manager of the year: Wellington Management

    Fixed income manager of the year: Wellington Management

    This year's fixed income manager of the year, Wellington Management, has developed a specialised fixed income platform that comprises a unique combination of large-firm capabilities and small-firm agility.

  • Investment strategy consultant of the year: Mercer

    Investment strategy consultant of the year: Mercer

    Mercer, with $442bn assets under advice, is 2024's investment consultant of the year for the continuing key role it plays in the insurance investment dialogue.

  • Multi-asset manager of the year: Wellington Management

    Multi-asset manager of the year: Wellington Management

    Wellington Management, 2024's multi-asset manager of the year, says that recognising no two insurers' investment portfolios are alike is key to its success, as well as its expanding multi-assets solutions platform.

  • Private debt manager of the year: Man Varagon

    Private debt manager of the year: Man Varagon

    In 10 years, the asset manager grew, now managing $11bn in insurance assets across multiple clients and structures.

  • Private equity manager of the year: Bain Capital Insurance

    Private equity manager of the year: Bain Capital Insurance

    In June 2023, Bain Capital Insurance, the dedicated insurance investing business of Bain Capital, announced the close of its inaugural fund with $1.15bn in commitments, which was significantly oversubscribed.

  • Real asset manager of the year: Invesco

    Real asset manager of the year: Invesco

    This year's Insurance Asset Risk Americas real asset manager of the year is Invesco, whose real estate portfolio includes $86.7bn in assets, as at 31 December 2023, with over 15 US insurance company general accounts as investors, across various strategies.

  • Responsible investor of the year: DWS

    Responsible investor of the year: DWS

    DWS is this year's Insurance Asset Risk Americas Responsible investor of the year thanks to its ESG advisory team's work over the past year partnering with insurance companies on their respective sustainability and/or climate journeys, including helping them develop reporting and assessment platforms.

  • Structured debt manager of the year: Barings

    Structured debt manager of the year: Barings

    Barings wins this year's Insurance Asset Risk Americas structured debt manager of the year award, managing $28bn of CLO tranche investments, of which $23bn are managed for insurance clients.

  • Technology provider of the year: Conning

    Technology provider of the year: Conning

    The risk solutions team at Conning, 2024's technology provider of the year, has been working to implement its risk management tools as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) since 2019.