Dec 02, 2024 The best definition of leadership I have heard: 'Ambition for Others'... By Mark Holbrook In September I attended the annual conference of the Bermuda life insurance industry body, BILTIR. 2023's event was fantastic and this...
Feb 22, 2024 Annuity Providers Shore-Up £ Corporate Bond Issuance By Sarah Austin-Keyworth There are signs that the currently healthy state of corporate bond issuance in sterling is encouraging non-UK domiciled companies to...
Oct 24, 2023 Life Insurers face an existential dilemma as the world grows older By Mark Holbrook Capgemini Research Institute's newly published report on the future of the global life insurance industry poses some existential dilemmas...
Oct 03, 2023 The LDI Crisis a year on: Collateral is key but the Credit markets have held up... By Mark Holbrook Fiscal policy, international monetary policy, pensions frameworks, investment strategies, even contract documentation in areas like...
Aug 07, 2023 'Draw-Nuities' might represent the future of the Retirement industry... By Mark Holbrook The 2015 Pensions Freedoms ushered-in a new era for the Drawdown product as the pre-eminent instrument of decumulation for UK retirees. ...
Jul 06, 2023 Regulator: Do Funded Reinsurance - but for the right reasons... By Mark Holbrook On 15th June the Bank of England's Insurance Supervisor published an open letter to the industry, in which it cited a number of...
Sep 29, 2021 Social Purpose in a Crisis: EU Releases Solvency Capital to Insurers whilst the UK considers Own Measures By Mark Holbrook There has been an increasing amount of discussion about expanding the role which the Life and Pensions industry might play in rebuilding...
Jul 12, 2021 Strategic Bond Funds prosper as Inflation and Equity sell-off fears increase… By Mark Holbrook There is a consensus of opinion that, by and large, bond managers and their funds have withstood the challenges of the post-Covid...
Feb 28, 2021 Bond Holders Beware: Inflation Could be Coming Back to Stay... By Mark Holbrook Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan's recent publication 'The Great Demographic Reversal' might make for uncomfortable reading by those...
Sep 07, 2020 Insurers: The Response to Climate Change Gathers Momentum By Mark Holbrook Insurers are of course, in a unique position to manage societal change because they underwrite trillions of dollars in climate related...
Jul 31, 2020 Insurance Legislator Looks to the Industry for Covid Solutions By AMC Executive Search The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) are exploring options for developing shared public and private sector...
Jun 16, 2020 "For a Bond Manager, the hardest thing to do in Q2 was to hold your nerve"... By Mark Holbrook 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...