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Sub-IG allocation under the Solvency UK sun
27 March 2025With a smoothing of the BBB-cliff, are UK insurers better placed to invest in sub-IG assets?
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Axa IM to push large UK retailers to pay "real living wage"
27 March 2025Affiliate is reportedly being joined by Scottish Widows and Cadano in shareholder resolutions
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Barings' portfolio finance platform raises $2.5bn in six months
26 March 2025Offers insurers access to directly originated private investment grade debt
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Privates, privates and more privates, insurers tell GSAM
25 March 202514th annual global insurance survey also reveals changed views on inflation and US recession
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Time and experience are making CIO's plans for private assets much more intricate
19 March 2025According 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?
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European insurers to benefit from higher gov defence spending and higher bond yields, Fitch says
17 March 2025While also warning of mass lapse risk and limited impact on Solvency II positions
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Annuity and private markets boom at L&G, as CIO eyes defence stocks
14 March 2025AuM falls 2% to £1.1trn, but private markets platform goes from strength to strength
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Market predictions for 2025 largely reversed already, Muzinich and Co says
14 March 2025Trump likely to keep up with tariff brinkmanship, leading to a difficult few months for investors, Ian Horn tells Insurance Asset Risk
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Achmea reports 22% growth in AuM following acquisition of manager
13 March 2025And says its on track to deliver on its sustainability goals
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Insurers double down on defence spending, while maintaining ESG exclusions
12 March 2025ESG and defence investments not mutually exclusive, insurers suggest, as NATO powers commit to spend more