Archive

  • L&G ploughs £1bn into East London

    23 September 2016

    Plans to increase UK infrastructure investments to £15bn

  • Getting the measure of credit downgrade risk

    21 September 2016

    Investors are questioning the impact of credit downgrades on insurers' Solvency II balance sheets. Hugo Coelho investigates how firms are gauging this risk and why they resist putting a figure on it.

  • Quasi-government loans: an elusive illiquid

    17 August 2016

    Supply of much-wanted government-backed loans is short, but the UK's referendum may change that to the benefit of life insurers. Asa Gibson reports.

  • L&G boosts direct investments by 28%

    10 August 2016

    Plans to almost double portfolio, as it hunts for yield

  • BoE rate cut and QE extension: the industry reacts

    04 August 2016

    Aviva's CEO questions rate cut, analysts expect further QE in 2016

  • Bank of England to put the squeeze on UK insurers

    03 August 2016

    Monetary easing may include fresh round of asset purchases. Hugo Coelho reports

  • L&G reduces redemption discount for UK property fund

    19 July 2016

    Market begins to stabilise after Brexit panic

  • L&G in £84.5m sale-and-leaseback deal

    08 July 2016

    Insurer agrees 25-year lease with Whitbread for hotel in London

  • Standard Life suspends trading in real estate fund, first time since 2008

    05 July 2016

    Brexit fears on property cause threat of mass redemptions

  • Brexit hits UK insurance property valuations

    30 June 2016

    Standard Life and LGIM cut valuations on property funds in reaction to volatility