Archive

• Standard Life concludes two BPAs with Halma

  07 November 2024

  Transactions together worth £250m and secure benefits of 2,200 members

• Alm. Brand group appoints Thorsten Larsen as chief investment officer

  14 August 2023

  Managing $3.3bn of AuM for Denmark's second-biggest non-life insurer

• Going with the floe - Nordic and Scandinavian CIOs' returns anything but glacial in 2021

  14 November 2022

  While central and southern European CIOs were busy grinding out returns in tough markets, their Nordic and Scandinavian peers were flying, finds Dåvid Wälker

• AXA IM Alts invests $28.5m in CXL Ophthalmics

  10 October 2022

  As part of a $35m series A funding round

• Generali operation starts insourcing, while de-emphasising Apollo exposure

  26 August 2022

  Apollo brought Generali unit value in IG credit, HY/loans, and loan origination

• "You can't have everything": can CIOs strike a balance between ESG and returns?

  26 January 2022

  Panellists at IAR's Asia conference discuss sacrificing balance sheets, for better ESG credentials, as Abbie Wood reports

• Markel names managing director of investments

  12 January 2022

  Tyler Brown will take up the role, reporting to co-chief executive officer Tom Gayner

• The Viking's tale

  21 September 2021

  Vikings liked conquering things, so it surprised David Walker little that Nordic insurance CIOs vanquished 2020's turbulent markets

• Hong Kong's modern-day CIO is investment 'match-maker'

  03 February 2021

  Hong Kong's life insurers face the ongoing challenge of unearthing long-dated assets to match long-dated liabilities - a task set to get harder under the planned risk-based capital rules. David Walker discusses the options with investment professionals at insurers confronting the challenge head-on

• Danish insurer reveals right to sell defaulting mortgages back to bank

  07 October 2020

  Contractual ability leaves Alm Brand Forsikring with no credit risk on deeds