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  • Axa France and Norges Bank Investment Management sell Paris building to Fidelity

    06 August 2019

    Axa subsidiary and Norway’s sovereign wealth fund to sell property for €98m

  • French insurers partner up for major unlisted SME funding initiative

    07 March 2019

    From Axa France to BNP Paribas Cardif and CNP Assurances, France’s largest have helped unlock €22.2bn of fund-based investments for French small caps. Their early-stage returns may be unclear. But their ambitions for the next phase of their investment is only the greater, the heavy hitters tell Vincent Huck

  • At the helm of Europe's giant general account

    26 February 2019

    Pascal Christory, chief investment officer at Axa Group, describes the difficult balance between centralisation and flexibility in an international group's investment strategy. Interview by David Walker

  • French insurers committed €1.2bn in partnership to fund unlisted SMEs

    13 February 2019

    The five insurers and an investment bank invested in 63 funds

  • Axa IM and Capzanine partner up on private debt

    24 January 2019

    Axa France and Axa IM will also increase stake in asset manager to 46%

  • Axa IMRA acquires European data centre operator

    10 July 2018

    Acquisition was made on behalf of Axa France

  • Equity volatility: how safe is your portfolio?

    19 March 2018

    Equity volatility is back. After a muted 2017, things went a little haywire for equities in February. But are these tremors or the start of something bigger? And how should insurers react? By David Walker

  • Why Aegon, Allianz, Aviva and NN are well prepared for rising rates

    30 June 2017

    Many loans and mortgages offer resilience to interest rate volatility, and with talk of rising rates becoming more frequent – whether through optimism or anticipation – IAR unmasks the largest life insurers' allocations to the lesser-used asset classes. David Walker Reports

  • Former Axa IM CEO joins Deutsche Asset Management

    29 July 2016

    Nicolas Moreau to lead the management board

  • Axa IM buys €120m property in Brussels

    28 June 2016

    Mixed office and commercial space in 44,200 sqm