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  • News round-up - 12 April 2021

    12 April 2021

    Varma; Aviva Investors; W&W

  • Varma buys BlackRock sustainable equity ETF

    12 April 2021

  • Sumitomo Life invests $100m in BlackRock Real Assets green fund

    01 December 2020

    Infrastructure fund to focus on solar and wind power generation plants in OECD countries

  • New England AM 'rescues' Lloyd's syndicates from losses in 2019

    11 November 2020

    GSAM, BlueBay and Syz also saved multiple Lloyd's syndicates from posting losses in 2019

  • Breadth of investment outsourcing in UK revealed

    28 October 2020

    UK insurers use more than 100 different investment managers

  • Global insurers ready to take investment risk again

    23 October 2020

    BlackRock study finds market volatility trumps geopolitics among risk concerns

  • Conning, Schroders and BlueBay among managers helping Lloyd's syndicates profit in 2019

    07 September 2020

    Analysis reveals where insuring made losses, but syndicates still posted profits

  • Lloyd's - an investor in all but name?

    10 August 2020

    The 330-year-old institution might have made its name with insurance, but in recent years its investments, with the help of third-party asset managers, have countered heavy losses from the liability side of the balance sheet. Is the old dog learning new tricks, David Walker asks

  • Scottish Widows invests £2bn in BlackRock's climate fund

    06 August 2020

    UK insurer helped design the fund and is its first investor

  • BlackRock raises record $5.1bn for energy fund

    15 April 2020

    Largest ever alternative fundraise targets insurers looking for yield