Archive

  • France looks for second generation of debt recovery fund, with a transition twist

    27 November 2023

    Insurers have already invested €2.7bn in the first generation

  • Société Générale Assurances partners with Tikehau Capital on unit-linked offering

    07 February 2023

    Part of efforts to "democratizing access to real assets"

  • Insurance investors contribute to EGERIE's €30m fundraising

    24 January 2023

    Tikehau Capital, Open CNP, la Banque des Territoires and TIIN Capital taking part

  • Going off-piste - how French CIOs are embracing alternatives

    10 January 2023

    As French insurers venture 'off-piste' in their general accounts, David Walker examines if the 'black runs' of alternative asset classes will be simply exciting - or could break a leg or two

  • 826 - the 'magic number' for European insurance investment outsourcing

    24 October 2022

    Insurance Risk Data analysis unearths outsourcing details in annual research report

  • French insurers invest €2bn in recovery programme

    23 October 2020

    Industry body list the funds and their asset managers

  • 2020 Asia Outlook: Unthreading the Asian patchwork

    15 January 2020

    Ever a patchwork of underwriting industries, the insurers of Asia will go their own ways when investing in 2020, as demands of performance, new regulation and even mild governmental cajoling come to play in varying degrees in the different jurisdictions. By David Walker

  • Insurance affiliates hold their own at top table of Europe's asset managers

    30 September 2019

    Many insurers’ affiliated managers have been sent out by their parents to gather third-party assets in recent years – with varying success. The managers might put their affiliation to an underwriting group forward as a credential to win more insurance mandates, but a European CIO questions whether this can be a universal truth. David Walker reports

  • Japan’s T&D Insurance ties up with Tikehau Capital

    04 September 2019

    Asset manager will distribute private debt products through insurer network

  • Raising the stakes in fund management

    07 December 2016

    Insurer-affiliated managers are punching above their weight in a competitive market, taking more than one-third of all fund managers' new business in the first three quarters. David Walker examines the evolving relationship between insurer-parents, affiliates and independent managers.