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White papersWhat’s in Store for US Insurers in 2023?
Insurers’ risk controls and investment skills faced stiff tests in 2022, as both inflation and interest rates skyrocketed and nearly every asset class endured a sharp selloff. With traditional diversification approaches failing, investors had nowhere to hide.
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What’s in Store for European Insurance Investors in 2023?
European insurance investors enter 2023 in healthy shape but face a less-than-stellar macro environment and regulatory change. It will take selectivity and flexibility to tap opportunities.
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Podcast
Natural Catastrophes in Today’s Climate
Natural disasters have certainly taken their toll on the environment. After Hurricane Ian decimated a large part of the American Eastern Seaboard, totalling roughly $50 billion in insured industry losses, one could ask: how is all of that getting paid for?
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Insurance Market Outlook
In this video interview, Gilles Drukier, Head of EMEA Insurance Solutions and Niall O’Sullivan Chief Investment Officer, Multi-Asset Strategies EMEA discuss the outlook for 2023 across asset classes and consider what the implications of this could be for European insurers.
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Impact investing: the insurance experience
TIAA’s chief investment officer and Nuveen’s head of responsible investing discuss how the General Account has built its targeted impact investing program while incorporating direct, measurable environmental and social goals across the portfolio.
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How Life Insurers Account for Realized Losses May Cause Unnecessary Pain
An accounting method long used by life insurers has come under pressure amid rising rates and wider credit spreads, potentially setting the life insurance industry up for large unrealized losses. But there may be a solution.
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Transition To a Net-Zero Carbon Economy: How Insurers Contribute To Green Finance Via Sustainable Bonds
The sustainable bond market recorded another tremendous year of growth in 2021, with €960 bn of bonds issued. This represents an increase of 80% vs 2020. This strong market expansion is being driven by institutional investors, for whom combating climate change and seeking positive social impacts have become strategic challenges.
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Insurers’ buy and maintain portfolios and sustainable investment
This article aims to explore how the inclusion of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria became a critical part of the management of Buy & Maintain (B&M) portfolios for insurers and other long-term investors and why we consider that the addition of new climate-aware guidelines such as temperature or carbon intensity should be implemented in all B&M portfolios, when possible, subject to a sound engagement policy.
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Climate Transition risk in Fixed Income Insurance Investment
For insurance portfolios, for reducing the carbon footprint given the limited turnover possibilities, we adopt a gradial asset rotation approach, exiting from poor ESG-rated assets gradually while pushing for change in activist approach via our engagement activities. From an insurance investment standpoint, the expectations in terms of transition risk will most probably result in heightened pressure on prices of high carbon footprint assets.
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Constant chaos: 4.669 reasons why car-tech could outpace insurers
Fiorino explores what’s driving change in the car insurance market – and why incumbents may have to get out of the road…
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Solvency II review to strengthen insurance sector
Now awaiting passage into law is a major review of the 2016 Solvency II regulation governing the solvency capital requirements (SCR) of European insurers. The amendments proposed by the European Commission (EC) and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) are intended to ensure the insurance sector remains fully resilient to future market shocks.
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Podcast
Commercial Real Estate for Insurance Investors
Insurance investors are increasingly turning to real estate debt and equity investments to generate income and to combat the impact of inflation.
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No immediate storm ahead, but insurers should use the lull to build portfolio resilience
Lingering COVID-19-related supply-side disruptions, alongside a significant rebound in consumer demand, are producing supply bottlenecks and an inflation rate not seen for decades.
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Insurance Linked Securities: developing climate resilience
Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) are an alternative asset class where investors’ returns are primarily linked to the occurrence of natural catastrophes. Since the majority of exposures emanate from climate-related risks, the potential impact of climate change is a key consideration for ILS managers and investors.
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A new perspective: Diversified private debt portfolios for insurers
Private debt offers a broad and diverse investment universe that is often well-suited to an insurer’s balance sheet. However, approaches that focus on certain sub-types of private debt could create barriers to effective investment over time and inadvertently narrow the opportunity set.
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*How can the insurance industry be more sustainable?*
The insurance industry needs to think about sustainability through both an underwriting and an investment lens, says ESG analyst Xuan Sheng Ou Yong.
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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
Core CMLs can offer a number of benefits to insurance investors—from a material spread premium over similarly rated corporates, to low historical defaults and delinquency rates, to diversification.
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ALTO* Insurance: a solution designed to meet insurers challenges
As automation becomes a mainstay in asset management firms and more are turning to artificial intelligence and alternative data sources for insightful decision-making, managers are looking for additional partners to help optimise their efficiency.
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Insurers’ portfolios: re-load the income engine, go beyond the traditional investment universe
US long-term yields have risen in recent months on expectations of strong economic growth fueled by fiscal stimulus. Eurozone long-term government yields have followed this movement in a limited way, as Eurozone economies have been hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis. The pandemic has increased economic fragmentation across European countries, putting pressure on the ECB to pursue its highly accommodative policy.
