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Back to investment basics
In this third and final article I look at investment strategies that “work” for insurers. Whilst touching on more modern diversified growth and absolute return bond fund strategies, we find opportunities that can be overlooked in plain vanilla equities, convertibles and even conventional multi asset strategies
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Innovation and quality the keys to pushing data's boundaries
Today's technology environment is changing at lightning speed. At the centre of this revolution is information backed by tools like cloud, AI and machine learning. So how best to harness the technology?
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Getting comfortable with asset risk
Dick Rae of BMO Global Asset Management explores how insurers' exposure to market risk varies and compares how typical British, French and German non-life companies behave
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Asset Risk Optimisation
Dick Rae of BMO Global Asset Management looks at asset optimisation and the extent to which risk can influence asset allocation.
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Direct lending - an attractive source of long-term return
An allocation into direct lending can provide insurers a diversified source of higher, less volatile returns over a longer-term time horizon
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Establishing and managing insurer investment strategies
The changing regulatory landscape and current market environment are creating challenges for the establishment and management of insurers' investment strategies, including: understanding the impact of investment strategy on regulatory capital requirements, identifying new investment strategies to enhance yield, accessing alternative or illiquid assets, and designing a framework for more integrated modelling of assets and liabilities.
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Solvency II: clean asset data in the forefront of industry transformation
Solvency II started as a regulatory act – designed to enhance risk management and to bring insurers a deeper understanding of their business, while also sharing this understanding with regulators. And this is largely what happened in the UK until the end of 2015.
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Wellington advise insurers to seek yield through municipal bonds
European insurers are still hunting for yield and the US municipal bond market may provide an interesting and capital efficient solution. Bob Sharma and James Bradbury, EMEA Insurance Relationship Managers at Wellington Management explain.
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