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  • Insurers could enjoy sizeable yields from US direct lending, Franklin Templeton says

    04 June 2021

    Yield healthy after matching adjustment and other Solvency II calculations

  • Taiwan chooses this year's "nine deep-cultivation" plan winners

    05 October 2020

    Grants expedited fund privileges for one year

  • India's regulator orders insurers how to direct corporate bond trades

    28 September 2020

    Irdai works with India's exchange regulator to centralise liquidity from disparate corporate bond markets

  • The year USA investors woke to social investing

    24 August 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the most vulnerable parts of society and highlighted social inequalities globally. In the USA, this combined with the death of George Floyd and the revitalisation of the Black Lives Matter movement, has prompted insurers to embrace 'social investing'. But is this a long-term trend or a one-off? Sarfraz Thind asks.

  • Diversity Project launches Scottish chapter

    17 April 2019

    Insurers and asset managers join other financial services firms in the chapter’s launch

  • Franklin Templeton makes case for real assets

    02 December 2015

    Such assets are positive for insurance company portfolios