Frankfurt Investment professionals from insurance groups are currently concerned with three main issues: bonds, opportunities for returns away from traditional stock exchanges and the sharply rising prices. That shows a survey by Blackrock. The world’s largest wealth manager, covering 28 trillion assets under management from global insurers, asked 370 insurance managers worldwide in which areas they want to invest and where they currently see risks.
According to Marcus Severin, the risks associated with inflation are at the top of the list of challenges. He leads Blackrock’s insurance and banking business in Germany and Austria. “The geopolitical risks, with the Ukraine war as the most important event, have receded somewhat into the background.”
According to the survey, more than three-quarters (76 percent) consider high inflation rates to be the greatest macroeconomic risk over the next 12 to 24 months, followed by the risks of recession (46 percent) and rising interest rates (42 percent).
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