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Fixed income
Complementing cash: Optimising cash in a rate-cutting cycle
11 Jun 2025
As many central banks begin cutting interest rates, short-term bond strategies can offer a complement to cash holdings. Alastair Sewell explains.
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Private Markets
A new era for APAC insurers: Infrastructure debt as a capital-efficient tool amid evolving RBC regulations
19 Mar 2025
As risk-based capital (RBC) frameworks are rolled out across the developed Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, insurers are having to rethink their asset allocations. European infrastructure debt could be an attractive addition to their toolkit.
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Fixed income
Widening the net: Why Asian insurers should be reviewing their emerging-market debt exposure
18 Mar 2025
Offering comparatively attractive yields and diversification benefits, emerging-market debt (EMD) could have a bigger role to play in Asian insurers’ fixed income portfolios as risk-based capital regimes continue to be rolled out across the continent.
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Liquidity
A tale of two cities: Factoring liquidity into risk-based capital
22 Oct 2024
Hong Kong’s new risk-based capital framework is reshaping the insurance landscape, pushing insurers to rethink their balance sheet strategies and liquidity management. In this article, Alastair Sewell discusses the evolving asset allocation trends and the opportunities insurers face to enhance capital efficiency and long-term growth.
Latest insurance thinking
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Why infrastructure investors better beat beta: End of cheap-money era brings risks and opportunities
25 Jan 2023
Benign macroeconomic conditions have boosted infrastructure investments over the past decade. But with higher interest rates, investors in the asset class will have to show they can create true value, says Darryl Murphy.
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Time to rethink collateral cash
13 Dec 2022
In this Q&A, Alastair Sewell explains why investors need to urgently rethink their approaches to collateral cash management.
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Our annual letter to company chairpersons
24 Jan 2022
As a key part of our engagement efforts, every January we send a letter to the chairs of companies we invest in (and some we don’t, but still want to use our influence with) to set out our stewardship priorities for the year. Here, in full, is our 2022 letter.
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