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  • L&G completes £450m refinancing for property fund

    23 July 2020

    Financing to provide extra investment capacity in e-commerce and warehouses

  • Did the Fed kill the bond market?

    02 July 2020

    Hopes were high at the end of March for investors to profit from the Fed's QE intervention and access a rejuvenated credit sector. The once-in-a-lifetime returns have, however, swiftly disappeared, and investors are back to staring at the ghost of bond market past. So what next? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Coal activists widen their scope of action to oil and gas

    18 June 2020

    Move answers a question long asked by Insurance Asset Risk

  • Insurers report $8.7bn investment losses in COVID-19 infected Q1

    04 May 2020

    Reported damage still coming as many European, US insurers expected to report this month

  • Less onerous ZZR reserving relieves pressure to encash investments

    02 May 2019

    German life insurers welcome rule change which lower their contributions to their interest rate reserve

  • Wells Fargo AM hires US insurance solutions lead

    18 April 2019

    Ed Martin joins from Genworth Financial

  • US insurers attraction for CLOs

    31 January 2019

    Collateralised loan obligations have been rapidly growing in US insurer portfolios as they cast off the shadow of the financial crisis. But, with a predicted downturn on the horizon, are they safe? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Brexit plans fuel Luxembourg fund industry growth

    24 January 2019

    More than half of newly licensed financial services companies are ‘Brexit relocations’

  • Unrealised losses on bonds restrict reinsurance sector’s overall return

    11 January 2019

    Investment yield appears to have bottomed-out and showed a small uptick to 2.7% in the first nine months of 2018, according to Aon reinsurance outlook

  • Wells Fargo Asset Management sets up shop in Paris and Frankfurt

    03 January 2019

    It also expands Luxembourg licence to counter ‘prevailing uncertainty’ around Brexit