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Aegon AM steps closer to establishing Chinese business
07 June 2019Asset manager signs MoU with Shanghai Lujiazui Administration Bureau
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Aberdeen and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank form Japanese real estate JV
07 June 2019Joint venture to co-invest and co-manage portfolio of residential assets in Japan and other mature Asia Pacific markets
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Steering investments at Hong Kong's flagship insurer
06 June 2019Mark Konyn, chief investment officer at AIA Group, meets with Insurance Asset Risk in Hong Kong and explains how the insurer centralised its group-wide investment function and the potential impact regulatory changes that are sweeping through the region might have on its asset allocation. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Foreign owned investors lead as locals lag on adoption of ESG in China
05 June 2019International insurers and pension funds are driving investment managers to factor in ESG but local firms wait on the side lines, PRI and CFA Institute report finds.
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Manulife IM appoint managing director for China
05 June 2019Ernest Yeung to take charge institutional, retirement and retail investment offerings for Chinese market
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Asset risk rising at Japanese insurers, Moody’s warns
04 June 2019Increase in overseas investments in hunt for yield key driver of rising risk
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Q&A: Introducing risk-based capital in Hong Kong
04 June 2019David Alexander, head of P&C reinsurance Hong Kong & Taiwan at Swiss Re, and chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Insurers taskforce on RBC has been directly involved in liaison with the Insurance Authority on the introduction of the new regulation. Interview by Vincent Huck.
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Hong Kong’s insurers gearing up for risk-based capital
31 May 2019In Hong Kong, local stakeholders tell Vincent Huck how they are getting ready for a risk-based capital regime which will require them to put in place ALM strategies and define their investment risk appetite.
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Chinese insurance investor body forms international advisory committee
29 May 2019Expert group to enhance internationalisation of China’s AM sector
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Taiwan to tighten rules for life firms
24 May 2019Change would curb unit-linked products and introduced greater ALM challenges for firms