Archive

  • Fubon Life makes offer for Tussauds

    06 May 2015

    Building up for sale since February

  • Allianz increases assets under management

    06 May 2015

    Rise helped by market and currency effects in Q1

  • Scor Global Investments produces good Q1 returns

    06 May 2015

    Fixed-income portfolio duration edging up

  • Swiss Re boosted by investment income

    30 April 2015

    Achieved in "an environment of financial repression", says CFO

  • Bernanke joins Pimco

    30 April 2015

    Former Fed chairman becomes senior adviser

  • The challenge of hedging under the volatility adjustment

    29 April 2015

    The multiple factors used to calculate the Solvency II risk-free rate when using the volatility adjustment (VA) render it almost impossible to hedge perfectly while maintaining capital efficiency, but that in turn creates an opportunity for value-added asset-liability management, says Paul Fulcher

  • Private equity seen as giving insurers best returns

    27 April 2015

    The latest GSAM survey casts light on the asset classes insurers favour over the next 12 months, where they see the best returns, differences between CIOs and CFOs and the impact of regulation on investment decisions

  • Time is running out for Greece

    27 April 2015

    Endgame in about six weeks, says JP Morgan; Draghi stresses about banks

  • Phoenix builds up equity-release book

    24 April 2015

    Part of strategy to diversify asset portfolio

  • Third of insurers plan to increase portfolio risk

    22 April 2015

    They see equity assets beating credit assets, GSAM survey finds