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Allied World to invest $225m in real estate
08 October 2014First foray into sector; takes stake in private equity firm
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Standard Life Investments to build infrastructure debt team
07 October 2014Hires Jeremy Allcock to head it
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Chinese insurer buys Waldorf Astoria New York
07 October 2014And Manulife plans tower project in Montreal
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Insurers plan bigger allocations to real estate and infrastructure
06 October 2014These are the two leading asset classes favoured by insurers as a BlackRock survey shows one in three firms plans to increase their risk appetite over the next three years
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European life insurers help push down US long-end yields
06 October 2014J P Morgan Asset Management cites knock-on effect
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Skimpy yields drive insurers up the risk spectrum
29 September 2014BlackRock study confirms CIOs' appetite for real estate debt and infrastructure assets
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Completion mandates are AllianceBernstein's forte
26 September 2014The approach enables insurers to access asset classes where they don't have the resources to research and manage them in-house, the firm's insurance CIO Erik Vynckier explains to Hardeep Dhillon
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The dangers of overlooking inflation risk
24 September 2014Pimco's Eugene Dimitriou and Berdibek Ahmedov outline the difficulties in quantifying inflation risk
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Just Retirement increases investment income by £207.4m
19 September 2014Boosts AuM by £1.5bn
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QE helped move insurers from gilts to corporate bonds
15 September 2014Switch similar across different types of insurer, notes BofE paper