Insights

In September I attended the annual conference of the Bermuda life insurance industry body, BILTIR. 2023's event was fantastic and this...

Capgemini Research Institute's newly published report on the future of the global life insurance industry poses some existential dilemmas...

Fiscal policy, international monetary policy, pensions frameworks, investment strategies, even contract documentation in areas like...

The 2015 Pensions Freedoms ushered-in a new era for the Drawdown product as the pre-eminent instrument of decumulation for UK retirees. ...

On 15th June the Bank of England's Insurance Supervisor published an open letter to the industry, in which it cited a number of...

There has been an increasing amount of discussion about expanding the role which the Life and Pensions industry might play in rebuilding...

There is a consensus of opinion that, by and large, bond managers and their funds have withstood the challenges of the post-Covid...

The search for Illiquidity Premium by long duration investors continues unabated, with latest PRA figures suggesting a steady but...

Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan's recent publication 'The Great Demographic Reversal' might make for uncomfortable reading by those...

Insurers are of course, in a unique position to manage societal change because they underwrite trillions of dollars in climate related...

For bond managers, March came in like a lion and went out like a lamb – but there was nothing seasonal about the markets at the end of...

In my last note we saw how - contrary to popular wisdom - life insurers will be impacted more on their investment portfolios than by...