Archive

  • Comment - What future for PE-backed life book consolidators as AXA and Athora ditch transfer plans?

    07 May 2024

    Ending it was consensual, but BaFin was surely in the deal-partners' thoughts

  • Climate change made up more than a third of Axa IM's engagement efforts in 2023

    29 April 2024

    Affiliate outlines key themes in 2023 and focus for 2024

  • The other 'hiking' - Lloyd's syndicate CIOs trek further 'off the beaten path' for alternatives

    25 April 2024

    Yields on core fixed income may have improved with rate hikes of recent years, but some Lloyd's syndicate CIOs have ventured further from the well-trod path, searching for alternatives, as David Walker discovers

  • SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books, and investments, of Zurich and AXA

    16 April 2024

    Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators Viridium and Athora, respectively

  • Axa IM makes two hires to macroeconomics research team

    16 April 2024

    Hires Gabriella Dickens as G7 economist and Danny Richards as EM Asia economist

  • What lurks below - Lloyd's syndicates shine a light on 'level 3' illiquid holdings

    11 April 2024

    While liquid bonds dominate syndicates' general accounts, liquidity analysis reveals there is more to investment portfolios at Lloyd's

  • MEAG acquires mixed-use rental building from Axa IM Alts

    08 April 2024

    Deal for Munich building worth €60m

  • Axa IM acquires private equity firm W Capital Partners

    04 April 2024

    Which manages $1.9bn of regulatory assets under management

  • Axa IM Alts' flagship London office property reaches 95% occupancy

    04 April 2024

    Manager signs two 10-year leases with UiPath and a London-based service provider

  • Comment - Why the planet may well thank Swiss Re's CEO Christian Mumenthaler

    03 April 2024

    Swiss Re announced today Mumenthaler will leave the group - destination unknown - in July