Tiaa-Cref
Allianz Life halves index CDS book in Q4
Counterparty Radar: Move by US market behemoth pushes life insurers’ notional down by almost 40%
Citi becomes top single-name CDS dealer for US life insurers
Counterparty Radar: New York bank bests Barclays as sector contracts by $340 million at the end of 2022
State Street triples repo book to become top US fund dealer
Counterparty Radar: Pimco trades boost Boston bank as sector volumes hold steady in Q4
Capital Group, BMR double down on bought index CDSs
Counterparty Radar: Market for US mutual funds contracts in Q4 for the first time in eight quarters
Asset manager of the year: Nuveen
Operational Risk Awards 2017: Nuveen successfully blends op risk platforms from both sides of Atlantic
Integrating cyber risk into an operational risk framework
Risk managers should feed each level of the company only the risk information it needs
OTC Derivatives Clearing Summit: Buy side bemoans ‘lowest common denominator’ treatment
Pension and insurance firms complain CCPs treat them the same as hedge funds
Uncertain outcomes – insurers and pension funds tackle inflation risk
With central banks’ discount windows pouring money out at rock-bottom rates but economies still slow to use up excess capacity, the outlook for inflation has never been murkier. Uncertainty has created arbitrage opportunities for inflation risk managers…
Institutional memory
Ninety-year-old TIAA-Cref is one of the US’s oldest providers of retirement services and came into the financial crisis with experience of past crises galore. But did history help it when the crunch bit, and how will its business model learn from this…
Ferguson leaves Swiss Re to head TIAA Cref
Roger Ferguson has been appointed president and chief executive officer of New York-based pension fund Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA Cref).
Ex-Putnam CRO Martens joins TIAA-CREF
Erwin Martens, former chief risk officer at Putnam Investments, has joined the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) in the newly created position of executive vice-president forrisk management.