Archive

  • European real estate in 2016: keep calm and carry on

    26 January 2016

    Joe Valente looks at the state of the European real estate market for 2016 and finds it is attractive on a relative basis.

  • Delta Lloyd invests in sustainable shipping loan

    26 January 2016

    Dutch insurer will finance the building of an LNG carrier

  • Alternative credit: is the illiquidity premium sustainable?

    22 January 2016

    Antti Suhonen and Declan Canavan examine the growing alternative credit buzz and the validity of the corresponding illiquidity premiums.

  • Aegon targets expansion of asset management division

    21 January 2016

    The investment management division of the Dutch insurer wants to meet the increasing demand for benchmark-agnostic active investment solutions. Benedicte Gravrand reports.

  • Aberdeen hires head of insurance solutions

    21 January 2016

    Asset manager seeks to expand its £120bn of insurance AuM

  • Goodbye gilts as Solvency II shifts asset allocation

    20 January 2016

    Prompted by Solvency II, some insurers have moved out of government bonds and into swaps and short-dated government or corporate bonds. But the swap-based approach is not without its challenges, as Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Insurance portfolio manager joins J.P. Morgan from Goldman Sachs

    15 January 2016

    London-based Nick Malangone joins multi-asset solutions team

  • Axa IM completes nearly €250m of hotel acquisitions in 12 months

    12 January 2016

    Global hotel portfolio now over €2bn

  • Sun Life Financial appoints Randy Brown as CIO

    11 January 2016

    Takes over from Steve Peacher, who continues as president

  • Axa IM buys more Italian real estate

    06 January 2016

    Pays €21.5m for Porta Siena shopping centre