Archive

  • Austria: Eastern Promise Beckons for Asset Managers

    23 August 2018

    Austrians' expanding businesses in eastern Europe, a commitment to ESG and their suffering at the hands of miserable debt yields, makes the country a market worth investigating in. David Walker reports.

  • LV= reports negative investment return in H1

    07 August 2018

    Due to losses on hedges protecting the Solvency II balance sheet

  • Next Insurance raises $83m

    16 July 2018

    Munich Re and Nationwide Insurance amongst the investors

  • Brexit boon for insurers invested in European property

    11 June 2018

    UK decision flushes other real estate markets with liquidity

  • LV=’s CIO on adapting to Solvency II

    03 May 2018

    LV=’s CIO Mark Laidlaw gives an insight into how the business has been impacted by Solvency II’s dictates on asset and liability management and moulded its choice of asset manager. By Paul Walsh and Sarfraz Thind

  • BNP Paribas AM appoints head for insurance and pensions solutions

    18 April 2018

    BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNP Paribas AM), the investment management arm of BNP Paribas, has hired Julien Halfon to fill the newly created role of head of pension solutions within its multi asset, quantitative and solutions investment group.

  • Equity volatility: how safe is your portfolio?

    19 March 2018

    Equity volatility is back. After a muted 2017, things went a little haywire for equities in February. But are these tremors or the start of something bigger? And how should insurers react? By David Walker

  • Helvetia favours fixed income, but sees outperformance in equity in 2017

    06 March 2018

    Swiss insurer Helvetia invested mainly in European bonds, US credit and treasuries for its new investments last year as its portfolio returned CHF1.3bn, or 2.8% for 2017.

  • Helvetia finances artificial intelligence firm targeting property investments

    15 December 2017

    Series A funding comes amid concern over local real estate prices

  • LV= to change role of senior executive as three functions converge

    15 November 2017

    Mark Laidlaw to head unified trio of internal teams, including investing