All Insurance articles – Page 3
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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.
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Cash dethroned: reallocation opportunities for insurers under Solvency II
Insurers continue to grapple with historically low cash rates and potentially high capital charges on some defensive assets under Solvency II.
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COVID, capital and climate: An interview with Ashish Dafria
Ashish Dafria, chief investment officer for Aviva, discusses the investment implications of the pandemic, climate change and the macroeconomic environment for a large insurer.
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Insurance Summit: Partnering for Positive Change
Climate protection and opportunities: how to integrate holistically across insurance portfolios
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Four Themes for Insurance Asset Management in 2021
Insurers have fared relatively well through the pandemic, but there is likely a long and uneven road to recovery ahead. With this in mind, there are four key themes worth considering for insurance company investors in the months to come.
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Catastrophe Bonds: Natural Diversification
Following another eventful year in reinsurance, we offer a primer on catastrophe bonds—a growing and genuinely diversifying asset class that we believe is attractively valued.
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How ILS now offer investors more than diversification
Insurance linked securities are known as a valuable diversification tool, but recent insurance market dynamics mean investors are also getting better yields. We take a look at why.
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ESG More Than Just a Branding Exercise in ILS
Published by Artemis, this recent article featuring Jennifer Signori, Principal and Senior Vice President, ESG and Impact Investing at Neuberger Berman, discusses the importance of ESG factors when it comes to Insurance-linked Securities (ILS).
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Life after Covid: the LDI view
The fast spreading of the new Coronavirus disease (Covid- 19) has become the biggest global challenge in decades, with more than 10 million (recorded) infections and a death toll exceeding 500k by mid-2020. Transmission by asymptomatic people is still debated, but may be a factor facilitating unconscious spreading, and making containment difficult.
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Investor Series: Private Assets for Insurers
Insurance investors face unique challenges in any environment but especially against today’s backdrop of continued low rates and a global economic slowdown. Barings’ Ann Bryant and Eric Lloyd discuss strategies for incorporating private assets as part of the solution.
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The Past, Present and Future of Insurance-Linked Securities
As the insurance industry has been potentially facing one of the biggest losses in history due to COVID-19, what lessons can we take from the past that could allow us to find opportunities in the future? Peter DiFiore, PhD, Managing Director of Insurance-Linked Securities, sits down with us to discuss the history of Insurance-Linked Securities, the impact of COVID-19 along with what the future might hold for the asset class as we move forward into the “new normal”.
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A look at why insurance-linked securities are largely immune to the Covid-19 volatility
Insurance-linked securities have been almost unaffected by the market turmoil linked to coronavirus. We look into the mechanisms that make them more resilient.
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Pastures new: Asset Liability Management in today’s reporting environment
The methods that insurers use to report profit to shareholders and solvency to regulators have been changing. This is the result of new accounting standards and solvency capital regulation in many markets.
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What will climate change mean for insurance-linked securities?
ILS has close ties to natural disasters but we believe climate change will have a limited impact on the asset class.
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Corporate Hybrid Bonds for Insurance Investors
To overcome the low-yield problem, European insurers are eager to identify assets that offer the right balance between quality and return.
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The Insurer: Maurice Tulloch on climate risk, insurance and closing the protection gap
The Aviva CEO talks to AIQ about how the insurance industry is working to assess and manage the catastrophic risks of climate change.