Archive

  • Aberdeen Standard Investments to construct its own climate scenarios

    14 October 2019

    Understanding of ESG and climate helping win mandates, asset manager says

  • Barings hires Bryant as head of insurance solutions

    06 August 2019

    Working in newly formed institutional solutions group to target global insurers

  • 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.

  • Aviva appoints Blackie for third-party development

    12 April 2018

    Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva, has appointed Steven Blackie as head of global product strategy to focus on the company's third-party business development.

  • PIC invests £60m in City of London's philanthropy

    13 March 2018

    UK bulk annuity provider, Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC), has agreed a £60m ($83.4m), 50-year debt investment in the Mercers' Company, a livery company in the City of London.

  • Between a rock and a hard place: Japan's life insurers must invest wisely

    30 August 2017

    With negative-yielding domestic bonds, a back book with high return guarantees and a prudential solvency regulation on the horizon, Japanese life insurers are caught between a rock and a hard place. David Turner reports.

  • Top 10 ideas for insurance CIOs

    03 February 2017

    Mercer's global insurance investment team has picked out ten initiatives to help chief investment officers navigate a changing landscape and bolster existing operations. Asa Gibson reports

  • Investing in a changing climate

    12 December 2016

    The response by insurers' investment operations to climate change has been branded embarrassing. Environmental Finance's Peter Cripps investigates what the industry can do on the asset side of the balance sheet to mitigate climate change risks in the first of a two-part analysis.

  • Can investment consultants build a bridge to insurers?

    09 November 2016

    Chief investment officers tell many tales of incompetent and tactless advisors, but admit they do sometimes need help navigating the investment landscape. David Walker investigates the future of the relationship

  • New York Life to open investment branch in Japan

    21 July 2016

    Former chief portfolio manager at Nomura Tatsuo Mizutori will lead the division