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  • M&G Real Estate buys Seoul office tower for $1bn

    24 July 2018

    Deal is the group's biggest commercial property transaction over the past five years

  • Brexit boon for insurers invested in European property

    11 June 2018

    UK decision flushes other real estate markets with liquidity

  • Private markets: end of the credit cycle, start of a new era?

    04 June 2018

    Insurers have increasingly invested in private assets in recent years to counter the low yield environment. But as we enter the later stages of the credit cycle, questions are being raised on whether private assets were tactical short-term choices, or if insurers have fully embraced these asset classes. Vincent Huck reports

  • World's top insurers stalling on climate change drive

    24 May 2018

    While insurers are increasingly acute to environmental risks which might impact both sides of their balance sheet, new research has found that their investment strategies are not in line with the Paris Agreement. The research was published the same week Royal Dutch Shell held its AGM and shareholders, including some large insurers, were asked to vote on a climate resolution. Did they stand up to the test? Paul Walsh and Vincent Huck report

  • M&G Investments to move £34bn of assets to Luxembourg

    17 May 2018

    Non-sterling assets would be transferred to Luxembourg funds to offset Brexit uncertainties

  • M&G launches private debt impact fund

    17 April 2018

    M&G Investments has launched a fund focusing on private and illiquid debt that will deliver a positive social or environmental impact.

  • Prudential spins off M&G Prudential

    14 March 2018

    Prudential is to separate its UK and European and global businesses, resulting in two separately-listed companies "with different investment characteristics and opportunities."

  • L&G allocates £350m to UK rolling stock in two deals

    02 January 2018

    LGIM Real Assets has completed two rolling stock deals worth £350m ($474m), taking its total number of rolling stock investments to four

  • Prudential's property investor appoints manager for Francophone Europe

    12 December 2017

    M&G Real Estate has appointed Audrey Tournereau to manage assets across France, Belgium and Luxemburg

  • Crossrail drives office tenancy demand outside London, finds M&G

    11 December 2017

    M&G secures five-year letting in Maidenhead site