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  • Japanese insurer's European merger could benefit sextet of external outsourcing partners

    27 June 2024

    Carne, BlueBay AM, Veritas AM; CBRE, Aegon AM and LGT Capital Partners set to benefit

  • St James's Place names 45 different managers on outsourcing roster

    11 March 2024

    Market risk SCR halved during 2023, group's SFCR shows

  • The nitty-gritty of insurers' IMAs with hedge funds

    14 February 2024

    An LP agreement in 2021 of Solasglas Investments and various Greenlight Re entities with hedge fund DME Advisors II, LLC, illuminated variables commonly negotiated between re/insurers and alternative managers.

  • Investors to benefit as Asia ILS market comes to life

    10 January 2022

    Investing in insurance-linked securities (ILS) was once about natural catastrophe risk, but in Asia, practitioners expect far greater diversity in life/non-life risks being packaged, with help from insurers and regulators alike, they tell David Walker

  • Life ILS outperforms, even as Covid takes mortality-turn

    09 December 2021

    Insurance-linked securities largely sailed through Q1 2020 turbulence, too

  • CNP Assurances to divest from tobacco

    27 May 2020

    French insurer has brought down its investment in the sector to €200m over past two years

  • Allianz forward purchases Hamburg office

    01 August 2019

    Edge HafenCity expected to be completed in Q4 2021

  • The case against hedge fund divestment

    20 July 2016

    The poor performance of hedge funds has led some insurers to slash their allocation, but the asset class has the potential to produce yield in difficult markets, as Asa Gibson reports