Private senior corporate loans could offer insurers an attractive mix of stable yields and new capital efficient solutions, was the key message for participants – a mixture of insurers and regulators – at the latest exclusive breakfast roundtable hosted by the Insurance Investment Exchange.

This week, Lloyd's, in collaboration with the University of Surrey, published two seminal papers – “Taking control: artificial intelligence and insurance” and “Taking control: robots and risk". They emphasize how important these technologies are in this increasingly digitalised world, and how they will impact all aspects of the insurance/reinsurance markets.

The Pulse, a new series of half-day events with a focus on topicality and current dynamics in specific asset classes of interest to insurers, was launched by the Insurance Investment Exchange at the end of March.

This week, Lloyd's, in collaboration with the University of Surrey, published two seminal papers – “Taking control: artificial intelligence and insurance” and “Taking control: robots and risk". They emphasize how important these technologies are in this increasingly digitalised world, and how they will impact all aspects of the insurance/reinsurance markets.

The discussion round the table focused on two options of particular interest to insurers – long lease assets and infrastructure debt.

The first Insurance Investment Exchange seminar of 2019, held at Salters’ Hall in the City of London, dipped its toes into the chilly currents of economic uncertainty swirling around the global economy. Volatility and uncertainty might be all around them but the chief investment officers in the audience were certain about one thing.