Insurance CIOs embrace investment complexity

UK insurers plan to invest in more complex securities over the next
year, according to an Axa Investment Management (Axa IM) survey of
investment decision-makers.
Chief investment officers (CIOs) are grappling with low interest
rates and the impact of Solvency II.
The poll by Axa IM shows that 71 percent of insurance investment
executives in the UK felt the Solvency II regime was encouraging
them to use more derivatives.
Two fifths of the CIOs surveyed said that managing their
Solvency...