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Esoteric ABS offers attractive niche for yield-hungry insurers
01 June 2021Structured finance market held up well during the pandemic, says DWS
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The return of private equity
24 May 2021Private equity has been cited as the hottest asset choice for US insurers for a while. This year it seems to be justifying the optimism. Returns have been stellar, but can the asset maintain its position as the alternative of choice? Sarfraz Thind reports
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Michele Gaffo to leave DWS
05 May 2021Former Poste Vita CIO joins private credit specialist HPS Investment Partners
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Institutional investors call on banks to set enhanced net-zero targets
19 April 2021Some 35 members of the IIGCC launch engagement campaign with banks
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DWS names Asia Pacific head of insurance
08 April 2021Ellen Yang's experience includes advising China's CBIRC on solvency regimes
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COVID and natcats will spur ESG in Asia, analysts predict
31 March 2021DWS says regulators and central banks also increasingly important catalysts
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A year to forget? Not if you were a shareholding CIO
16 March 2021One year ago today, markets reached 'peak-panic', as the Vix index hit 82.7. David Walker re-examines insurers' general accounts to show who got hit, who got hedged, and who got shot of their shares
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Free webinar: Asian insurers' appetite for illiquid investments
04 February 2021Taking place on 9 February
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Equity: Listed for Brits, unlisted for French, Swedes just love it
30 December 2020Insurance Asset Risk reveals how European insurers like their equity holdings
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UK insurers hold most CRE debt of European peers
29 December 2020But individually Dutch insurers are bigger spenders in the asset class