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  • Sub-IG allocation under the Solvency UK sun

    27 March 2025

    With a smoothing of the BBB-cliff, are UK insurers better placed to invest in sub-IG assets?

  • Axa IM to push large UK retailers to pay "real living wage"

    27 March 2025

    Affiliate is reportedly being joined by Scottish Widows and Cadano in shareholder resolutions

  • Barings' portfolio finance platform raises $2.5bn in six months

    26 March 2025

    Offers insurers access to directly originated private investment grade debt

  • Privates, privates and more privates, insurers tell GSAM

    25 March 2025

    14th annual global insurance survey also reveals changed views on inflation and US recession

  • Time and experience are making CIO's plans for private assets much more intricate

    19 March 2025

    According to Nuveen's latest EQuilibrium Global Institutional Investor Survey, insurers are getting much savvier at building private markets portfolios, but could anything blow them of course?

  • European insurers to benefit from higher gov defence spending and higher bond yields, Fitch says

    17 March 2025

    While also warning of mass lapse risk and limited impact on Solvency II positions

  • Annuity and private markets boom at L&G, as CIO eyes defence stocks

    14 March 2025

    AuM falls 2% to £1.1trn, but private markets platform goes from strength to strength

  • Market predictions for 2025 largely reversed already, Muzinich and Co says

    14 March 2025

    Trump likely to keep up with tariff brinkmanship, leading to a difficult few months for investors, Ian Horn tells Insurance Asset Risk

  • Achmea reports 22% growth in AuM following acquisition of manager

    13 March 2025

    And says its on track to deliver on its sustainability goals

  • Insurers double down on defence spending, while maintaining ESG exclusions

    12 March 2025

    ESG and defence investments not mutually exclusive, insurers suggest, as NATO powers commit to spend more