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• 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

• 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.

• Insurers have stakes in 15% of European fund managers

  22 November 2016

  The business stakes give insurers indirect interest in €2.4trn of assets

• Insurers invest in Tikehau's leveraged loans fund

  14 October 2014

  Fund said to offer diversification and good returns