Archive

  • US insurers warmly welcome outsourced managers for climate change investing

    06 January 2021

    US insurers are buying ever more services from asset managers, data vendors and research houses to help understand climate change and inform their investment decisions, David Walker discovers.

  • Few Lloyd's syndicates detail actions on climate change

    03 August 2020

    And most remain vague on the specifics

  • Aviva Investors provides £60m private debt facility

    21 July 2020

    Invests into not-for-profit UK housing association

  • Lloyd's syndicates $100m outsourcing treasure

    18 April 2019

    In the second part of our two-part series on Lloyd's syndicates and their investments, David Walker analyses their portfolio allocations and performance, uncovering a treasure most asset managers would want a map to.

  • PIC invests £93m in Welsh housing

    13 March 2017

    Deal structured around credit strength of the housing associations

  • The machine learning revolution

    24 February 2017

    Machine learning is seen as the next stage of evolution in the asset management world. While still in its infancy, asset managers are examining how to use machines in everything from investment making to operational efficiency. So will it really change the way that insurers invest? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Axa IM joins forces with State Street and MKT MediaStats on big data

    11 April 2016

    Partnership will help interpret market signals in large volumes of data