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  • The insurance asset management gold rush

    15 March 2017

    Enticed by lucrative revenues, insurers are pushing into the asset management business like never before. Insurer-affiliated managers are currently some of the fastest growing in the world. With regulations and low rates driving increased insurer third-party asset outsourcing, the industry is in a prime position to pick up more business. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • JP Morgan promotes insurance chief to lead institutional clients

    15 February 2017

    James Peagam fit for the role having worked with insurance clients

  • Stress test or eventuality: it's time to respond

    31 January 2017

    European life insurers should reassess their investment strategies in light of Eiopa's latest stress test, which exposed vulnerabilities to a plausible 'low-for-long' interest rate environment, writes JP Morgan Asset Management's Vladimir Zdorovenin.

  • Axa IMRA appoints head of Japan

    17 January 2017

    Yoshihiko Hayafuji joins with immediate effect, replacing Tetsuya Karasawa

  • New rules to prompt US asset reshuffle

    22 December 2016

    US insurance is on a collision course with one of its biggest risk capital changes in years. It is a significant change for the long-term asset allocation strategy of US insurers and could herald a reshuffle in the fixed income portfolio. Sarfraz Thind reports.

  • Invesco targets insurer needs with hire from JPMAM

    12 December 2016

    Managers must be partners to underwriters, Invesco says

  • Dai-ichi buys $50m Feed Africa Bond

    02 November 2016

    African Development Bank issues 10-year, AAA-rated bonds

  • SLI hires EMD expert from JPMAM

    06 October 2016

    Appointment reflects increasing appetite for EMD

  • The high yields and low defaults of taxable muni bonds

    05 October 2016

    With a long record of above average returns and strong credit quality, the US's little-known taxable municipal bond market offers non-US insurers a safe route to yield, says Eaton Vance's Michael Sullivan.

  • Why bond market liquidity is back on the worry list

    28 September 2016

    JP Morgan Asset Management's Prashant Sharma and Bryan Wallace on why insurance investors must accept structurally lower liquidity in bond markets, and how they can navigate the new asset landscape.