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  • Negative equity threatens lifetime mortgage assets

    26 October 2016

    The potential for falling house prices after Brexit threatens the stability of lifetime mortgage returns. Firms are modelling worst case scenarios and testing the limits of an otherwise attractive asset. Callum Tanner reports.

  • Insurers overestimate business valuation, Milliman research suggests

    26 October 2016

    Consultancy advocates market-consistent embedded value reporting

  • Insurers predict secondary market for matching adjustment assets

    20 October 2016

    But some fear regulators will be wary of systemic risks

  • Matching adjustment rules are tying asset managers in knots

    19 October 2016

    Investment managers need freedom to exercise skills, experts say

  • Aviva in £87m forward funding of speculative office scheme

    18 October 2016

    Commits to future development opportunities in Cambridge, UK

  • Aviva Investors' head of sterling joins Columbia Threadneedle

    29 September 2016

    Asset manager seeks insurance expertise

  • Aviva in £187m long-term deal with solar investment firm

    28 September 2016

    Insurer's investment arm agrees two fully amortising 18-year tranches

  • M&G appoints head of investment risk

    06 September 2016

    Nas Islam replaces David McGillveray and will report to the CRO

  • Insurers chime in on fossil fuel subsidies

    30 August 2016

    Aviva CEO warns climate change is the "mother of all risks"

  • French insurers invest in €425m green energy infrastructure fund

    24 August 2016

    CNP and Meridiam close fund after six months