Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2023

AllianceBernstein manages $735 billion* in assets globally for a diverse group of clients—from individual investors to the world's largest institutions. For more than four decades, we've partnered with sophisticated insurance clients, offering diverse investment expertise and a focus on insurers' needs. Today, we manage nearly $185 billion in insurance assets across fixed income, alternatives and equities. With our dedicated team of insurance investment experts, regional insurance strategists and relationship advisors, AB provides 360-degree coverage...and the focus needed to deliver what matters most to insurers.

(*as of March 31,2022)

Neuberger Berman, founded in 1939, is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. The firm manages a range of strategies—including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity, real estate and hedge funds—on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors globally. With offices in 26 countries, Neuberger Berman's diverse team has over 2,700 professionals. For nine consecutive years, the company has been named first or second in Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work in Money Management survey (among those with 1,000 employees or more). Neuberger Berman is a PRI Leader, a designation, since last assessed, that was awarded to fewer than 1% of investment firms for excellence in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. In the 2021 PRI Assessment, the firm obtained the highest possible scoring for its overarching approach to ESG investment and stewardship, and integration across asset classes. The firm manages $436 billion in client assets as of March 31, 2023.

For more information, please visit our website at www.nb.com.

Insurers have been building investment partnerships with Wellington since 1975. With $140 billion AUM as of June 30, 2022, our goals since then have remained evergreen – to exceed the investment objectives and service expectations of our clients. As an integral part of Wellington's global investment platform, our dedicated Financial Reserves team offers a breadth and depth of resources and experience to serve our insurance clients as a go-to thought partner, risk manager, and trusted advisor for complex investment challenges.

Aviva Investors is a global asset manager with over £268 bn of AUM* managed in real asset, fixed income, equity, multi-asset and alternative investments in 14 countries*. Our clients can benefit not only from our significant local knowledge and experience, but also from the extensive global investment resources at our disposal. Responsibility is incorporated at all levels of our organization: understanding the factors, risks and opportunities in ESG helps us to be better investors and delivering the investment results our clients expect.

The value of an investment is subject to increases and decreases. Investors may not recover the amount originally invested. *Data as of 31 December 2022.

AXA Investment Managers is a responsible asset manager with a strong heritage of partnering with insurers to design and deliver optimal investment solutions, and to achieve their asset yield, capital efficiency and sustainability objectives.
With our 30-year track record, we are entrusted to manage €400 billion of insurance assets, and have more than 100 third-party clients across geographies and business lines. Our scale and deep understanding of the complex challenges insurers face enable us to offer clients solutions that cover the full investment spectrum from traditional to alternative assets - providing investment plans, deployment and portfolio management, whilst integrating multi-dimensional constraints and frameworks.

Conning (www.conning.com) is a leading investment management firm with a long history of serving the insurance industry. Conning supports institutional investors, including insurers and pension plans, with investment solutions, risk modeling software, and industry research. Conning's risk management software platform provides deeper insights for decision making, regulatory and rating agency compliance, and capital allocation. Founded in 1912, Conning has investment centers in Asia, Europe and North America.

ICG provides flexible capital solutions to help companies develop and grow. We are a leading global alternative asset manager with over 30 years' history, managing $74.5bn of assets and investing across the capital structure. We operate across four asset classes: Structured and Private Equity, Private Debt, Real Assets, and Credit.

We develop long-term relationships with our business partners to deliver value for shareholders, clients and employees, and use our position of influence to benefit the environment and society. We are committed to being a net zero asset manager across our operations and relevant investments by 2040.

ICG is listed on the London Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: ICP). Further details are available at www.icgam.com. You can follow ICG on LinkedIn and Twitter.

*as at 31 December 2022

Invesco is a global independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. With investment professionals located in over 25 countries worldwide, our specialized investment teams manage US$1.4 trillion in assets across a wide range of asset classes and investment styles (as at 31 December, 2022).

With a deep understanding of the insurance sector, the Invesco Insurance Investment Solutions team develops customized solutions for our clients to optimize investment returns. We work with policyholders and shareholders under specific insurance constraints to address liabilities, accounting earnings, regulatory capital and risk management. Our fully integrated insurance solutions platform includes specialized investment and solutions teams to provide bespoke analysis, and a dedicated client relationship team.

For more information please visit: https://www.invesco.com/uk/en/institutional/clients/insurance-companies.html.

Ortec Finance is the leading provider of technology and solutions for risk and return management. It is Ortec Finance's purpose to enable people to manage the complexity of investment decisions.

This is accomplished via the delivery of leading technologies and solutions for investment decision-making to financial institutions around the world. Ortec Finance's strength lies in an effective combination of advanced models, innovative technology, and in-depth market knowledge. This combination of skills and expertise supports investment professionals in achieving a better risk-return ratio and thus better results.

Headquartered in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Ortec Finance has offices in Amsterdam, London, Toronto, Zurich, New York, and Melbourne. www.ortecfinance.com

Schroders manages over £150 billion of assets for insurance clients globally, including large life insurance companies, financial mutuals, general insurers and Lloyd's syndicates (as at 31 June 2022). We work with our insurance clients in a range of different ways - from key pooled vehicle sales across asset classes to fully bespoke models including Strategic Asset Allocation and actuarial support. A trusted adviser to insurance companies, Schroders Insurance Asset Management has the experience, flexibility and insurance domain knowledge and flexibility to deliver you tailored and innovative solutions within a dynamic investment and regulatory landscape.

Globally, we are responsible for £737.5 billion*of assets for our clients who trust us to deliver sustainable returns (as at 31 December 2022). We actively and responsibly manage investments for a wide range of institutions and individuals, to help them meet their financial goals as they change over time. The world is forever changing but throughout our long history we have continued to adapt our business, keeping our focus on what matters most to our clients, today and in the future.

SigmaQ Analytics is a Swiss Fintech company based in Zurich, Switzerland. We provide analytics solutions and financial intelligence to our clients.
The firm was founded in 2019 with a vision of integrating financial analytics with modern data science.

SigmaQ Analytics has developed a new predictive credit risk technology deploying latest data science techniques and Bayesian updating. 
We are able to integrate new risk factors (like GHG emissions) into our corporate default risk models. Traditional providers struggle with this task due to legacy credit technologies. Our data service covers corporate default probabilities for 40’000+ companies from 70+ markets worldwide and emission-adjusted default probabilities for 7’000+ companies. SigmaQ's loss-given-default model and liquidity risk indicator for bond issues cover the entire developed markets with 250’000+ ISIN. Our credit risk data are used in renowned financial institutions since 2020.

SigmaQ's risk analytics suite includes IFRS9 ECL, CECL, macro-economic, stress testing, ORSA, credit portfolio and concentration risk models, among others.