Archive

  • Commercial real estate investors add to criticism of Solvency II capital charges

    21 January 2014

    CFREC Europe and Inrev ask Eiopa to relax rules on commercial mortgage backed securities

  • Conning offers US insurers trade finance investments

    14 January 2014

    NAIC recently approved trade finance as an investable asset

  • German insurers fight "unreasonably high" Solvency II infrastructure capital charge

    14 January 2014

    Unlisted renewables and infrastructure should have 20% capital charge, says GDV

  • RBS ALM director joins consultancy

    06 January 2014

    Ross Evans now at Hymans Robertson

  • Friends Life's Mark Versey: "Infrastructure is now a core investment strategy"

    22 November 2013

    Friends Life is now directly investing in both infrastructure and commercial real estate debt after awarding combined mandates of £1bn this year. Jamie Bullen asks chief investment officer Mark Versey what lies behind this new strategy

  • Hopes build for better treatment of infrastructure investment under Solvency II

    27 September 2013

    Infrastructure investments provide a great match for insurers' liabilities, but Solvency II's crude view of the investment risk means money is not flowing as fast as it could. Milliman and JP Morgan Asset Management set out the justification for a review