Institutional Asset Management News and Insights
Global Captive Podcast | Episode 40
Chris Dalziel, Executive Director and Punit Patel, Equity Fund Manager, sit down with Richard Cutcher, host of Global Captive Podcast to give their latest Investment Update. Listen to the Podcast Episode below, to listen to London & Capital’s Investment update,...
Negative Yielding Debt in Europe
Revisiting Investment options for insurers holding negative yielding debt In 2019 we identified strategies that insurers should consider given the prevailing negative rates environment in Europe. Following the COVID-19 crisis in early 2020, there has been...
Is Cash King? A Case Study for European Insurers looking to reduce Regulatory Capital
Since the COVID-19 crisis escalated in early 2020, we have spoken with a number of insurers looking to reduce their regulatory capital requirement as a way to navigate a possible economic recession. For many of these insurers, common sense leads them to considering...
Note from the CIO 8th September
“The big money is not in the buying or in the selling, but in the waiting” Charlie Munger In the early months of the novel COVID-19 pandemic and the related shutdown of the economy, the pace of economic and health developments was frenetic. Nowadays the slower pace of...
Global Captive Podcast | Short | Restructuring a captive’s investment portfolio
Chris Dalziel, Executive Director and Shadrack Kwasa, Executive Director, sit down with Malcolm Cutts Watson, Founder and Managing Director of Cutts-Watson Consulting and Richard Cutcher, host of Global Captive Podcast to discuss how to restructure a captive’s...
Macro Outlook Q3 2020 | Where Now For The Global Economy?
Financial markets have rallied since April, with investors growing more confident that economies will turn around quickly from the fallout caused by the pandemic. Their optimism has increased in recent weeks as various countries have started to ease lock-down...
Bank Stress Test
Highlighting a strong and resilient banking sector fortified by regulators to withstand a once in a lifetime economic shock. Fed Vice Chair echoes our sentiment, “The banking system has been a source of strength during this crisis and the results of our sensitivity...
Does Regulatory Capital Help or Hinder During a Crisis? Part 3
We are now at the last part of our series on regulatory capital considerations for your insurance investment portfolio. Having looked at common issues insurers face when looking to raise the level of regulatory capital in their investment portfolios and the long-term...
Does Regulatory Capital Help or Hinder During a Crisis? Part 2
The first part of this series covered some of the common issues insurers face when looking to raise the level of regulatory capital available to their business – particularly in the context of investment portfolios. Our second part of these series digs into the...
Does Regulatory Capital Help or Hinder During a Crisis? Part 1
As the insurance industry grapples with the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, there are a range of challenges specific to insurers that have come to the fore – one of which is around the impact of regulatory capital regimes on insurers. As insurers saw the value of their...
Macro Outlook Q2 2020 | From Growth, to Unprecedented Global Contraction, to Recovery
The nature of the economic shock experienced in recent weeks is unparalleled, with governments driving economies into recession in order to deal with a public health emergency. The impact on markets has been equally severe and despite some more recent relief for asset...
March Macro Update
In light of recent market moves, we have updated the macro section of our Q1 2020 Outlook. All updates in the document are in grey text. To read the full article, please click here. At London & Capital, we understand that protecting and growing your wealth...