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  • Guardian Life gives $30bn mandate to HPS Investment Partners

    14 August 2024

    As part of deal expanding Guardian's stake in asset manager

  • Are insurers' outsourcing agreements contracts 'made in heaven'?

    29 January 2024

    Investment management agreements lock in some tasty fees for managers signing on the dotted line, but insurance CIOs increasingly expect a wide scope of 'extras' to boot

  • Guardian Life buys equity stake in HPS Investment

    09 February 2022

    HPS will manage "strategically important" sum for private credit investments

  • Michele Gaffo to leave DWS

    05 May 2021

    Former Poste Vita CIO joins private credit specialist HPS Investment Partners

  • Watford Re gets $128m investments boost as underwriting loss widens

    12 February 2020

    Hedge fund-owned reinsurer's non-IG portfolio contributed 5.7% last year

  • 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