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UK regulator seeks views improving liquidity of open-ended property funds
08 February 2017Concerns include market confidence loss and further price falls following post-referendum fund suspensions
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Watchdog keeps third-party managers away from Indian insurers
30 January 2017Draft rules prohibits outsourcing the running of assets "in any manner whatsoever"
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Japanese regulator reveals signatories to local investment code
29 December 2016Insurers still lag pensions as asset owner adherents
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PRA steps up intervention on repackaged MA assets
16 December 2016Concerns that firms may overestimate MA benefit for equity release mortgage securitisations
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What are the ESG alternatives to renewables and divestment?
14 December 2016Hot on the heels of the FSB's guide to incorporating climate risks in investment decisions, Environmental Finance's Peter Cripps examines some of the alternative strategies being executed by insurers to reduce their exposures to risks stemming from climate change.
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Investing in a changing climate
12 December 2016The 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.
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Allianz in UK gas infrastructure deal
09 December 2016Insurer acquires 61% sake in UK gas distributor as part of infrastructure investment consortium
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Insurers predict secondary market for matching adjustment assets
20 October 2016But some fear regulators will be wary of systemic risks
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US bonds to be allowed in Singapore's matching adjustment
25 July 2016Authority to widen scope of eligible long-term assets
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Singapore considers capital treatment for infra assets
15 July 2016Scopes out appetite for infra investments within RBC 2 framework