Asset management
Market uncertainty and volatility influences investor risk appetite
Do you expect to increase or reduce your tolerance for risk over the next 12 months?
Alcentra
Asset manager with a big appetite
Swiss Capital PRO Loan: Swiss Capital Group
Innovation leads Swiss Cap to senior secured bank loans
AXA Investment Managers Paris
AXA IM gears up for European loan market
Luminous Capital
Illuminating the credit markets
Categories of funds regulated under Cayman Islands law
Hybrid Structured Credit Funds: Securitisation moves into new paradigm
Favourable tax for section 110
Hybrid Structured Credit Funds: Securitisation moves into new paradigm
Leveraging corporate assets in the Cayman Islands
Hybrid Structured Credit Funds: Securitisation moves into new paradigm
Luxembourg fund structures and tax advantages
Hybrid Structured Credit Funds: Securitisation moves into new paradigm
Irish-qualified investor funds give managers flexible and adaptive structure
Hybrid Structured Credit Funds: Securitisation moves into new paradigm
Mystic Margie’s 2010 predictions
Predictions are tricky things. The only safe ones are within 24 hours, when there is a 50/50 chance of being right. Long-term forecasts of 10 years or more are also relatively safe as no one will remember what was said but, if right, the predictor can…
NAIC decision to stop using rating agencies for RMBS heralds major change for US insurance industry
Concern by the NAIC over the veracity of rating agencies’ analysis of insurers’ RMBS holdings is leading to a shake-up in how these organisations are used in the US. Is this pattern set to be followed in Europe?
Inflation hedging: How the Dutch pension sector is moving its focus from nominal to real liabilities
The Dutch pension sector has long-held a focus on nominal liabilities but both schemes and regulators are investigating whether a move to assessing real liabilities would be a step forward.
Understanding policyholder behaviour is crucial to the success of ALM and replicating portfolio strategies
Born of interest rate volatility, dynamic policyholder behaviour is a variable no insurer can afford to ignore – yet modelling it is problematic. How are companies adapting to the new market conditions?
MCEV provided reliable company values in recent economic turmoil argues Allianz’s Tom Wilson
The emergence of market-consistent embedded value has proved challenging for insurance traditionalists, but Tom Wilson, chief risk officer of Allianz, argues that not only has it provided an accurate reflection of shareholder value in the recent volatile…
Winners of European FoHF awards announced at London gala dinner
Celebrations of the eighth European Fund of Hedge Funds Awards started with a kick, as the Moulin Rouge theme of the night was captured by dancers demonstrating some of the moves that made the Paris cabaret world famous.