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Direct action - Asset origination moves centre stage in re/insurers' investment plans
20 December 2023From backing BPAs to enhancing investment yields, directly-originated assets, and the managers able to source them, are finding favour among re/insurers worldwide, David Walker discovers
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AM Best praises Prudential Financial's investment portfolio
18 December 2023Net investment income has been driver of earnings in last five years
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Manulife to dispose of CA $1.7bn in alternative long-duration assets in reinsurance deal
14 December 2023Deal with Global Atlantic, worth CA $13bn, to also transfer CA $1.3bn in assets
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NZAOA releases paper on decarbonisation drivers
14 December 2023Lead authors discuss findings with Insurance Asset Risk
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Second phase of Solvency UK will broaden investment opportunities, L&G group CEO says
13 December 2023Phase two will be a "critical lever", Nigel Wilson says, as phase one is set to become law
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AG Insurance CIO discusses the return of optionality in insurance investing
13 December 2023Wim Vermeir examines the Belgium insurer's 2024 outlook titled 'the return of the returns'
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Investor-led ASCOR delivers first climate feedback to sovereign bond holders
13 December 2023Research is backed by the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance
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Life insurers not turning away from alternative investments yet, EIOPA says
12 December 2023Many had expected life insurers' "search for yield" would become less pronounced
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When Japan sneezes
11 December 2023Japan's economy has seen a sea change this year as the BoJ loosens what seems like it has been a lifetime of low rates. Life insurers are preparing to make their own moves on the back of this—which could impact the rest of the world.
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Institutional investors willing to sacrifice yield for ESG credentials in UK residential property
06 December 2023Report from Downing finds investors increasingly keen on allocating to asset class to achieve ESG goals