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  • China's regulator spells out loosening of equities investment limits

    23 July 2020

    Ceilings will be tied to solvency ratios, CBIRC explains

  • Sunny side up at Pacific Life

    07 November 2019

    Tod Nasser is in charge of Pacific Life’s $53bn fixed income portfolio. While the rest of the market appears bedevilled by change and uncertainty, he is positive for now. Indeed, looking at the liquidity situation, buoyant corporate earnings and the health of the US consumer, it certainly is not as risky a world as it was before the financial crisis. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Longer-term products push Chinese life firms into more property, alternatives

    16 September 2019

    Fitch expects Hong Kong-listed companies to want more strategic equities, too

  • Pacific Life sells aircraft leasing business for $3bn

    10 September 2019

    Tokyo Century takes full ownership of Aviation Capital Group

  • The BBB effect: apocalypse or opportunity?

    12 March 2019

    US insurers are holding bigger volumes of BBB-rated corporate debt than at any time in the past. A turning credit cycle could tip significant amounts of these to junk. But while the headline figures look startling, is this really a precursor to the apocalypse or just another bad news story? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Risk management and optimizing investment strategies

    23 August 2018

    Insurers want more alternative assets but struggle to evaluate the optimum risk/return portfolio

  • Three US insurers provide $1bn mall refinancing

    05 October 2015

    NY Life and Pacific Life join MetLife in deal for New Jersey luxury complex

  • Goldman Sachs AM to acquire Pacific Global Advisors

    24 April 2015

    Pacific Life Insurance sells firm it bought in 2011