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Mid-market corporate lending too "crowded"
15 August 2018Investors should look for smaller, niche sectors, Willis Towers Watson advises
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Prince of Wales says insurers need to step up on sustainability
11 July 2018Events organised by the Prince of Wales can't be publicised, so it was a running joke among the attendees of his finance leaders' summit at St James Palace to ask how one had heard about the event. Surrounded by tapestries, art works, swords and powder guns hanging from the walls, 70 finance leaders were asked to commit to concrete actions to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. Vincent Huck got a glimpse through the door.
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Willis Towers Watson combines investment with insurance offering
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WTW's asset management trading platform quadruples AuM
08 January 2018Willis Towers Watson's AMX reaches $3.2bn less than a year after launch
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The risks and rewards of leveraged finance: senior secured loans
15 December 2017With European insurers showing increasing interest in allocating to senior secured loans – a more popular investment for US counterparts – David Turner explores how and why insurers either side of the Atlantic are approaching the asset class.
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UK's 'underwhelming' MA reform proposals turn thoughts to post-Brexit possibilities
17 November 2017The lack of significant change in the UK's proposals to reform the Solvency II matching adjustment has led stakeholders to question the country's ability to act on industry feedback while under Eiopa's jurisdiction. Asa Gibson reports
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Transition to alternatives helps cut UK annuity pricing
26 April 2017Insurers no longer reliant on corporate bond spreads
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Diversified Growth Funds - manna or mania?
07 April 2017Diversified growth funds promise equity-like returns with fixed income-type capital charges. It certainly looks an interesting proposition for insurers in the current low yield world. But how well do the promises stack up? Sarfraz Thind reports
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Is the relationship between insurer and asset manager facing disruption?
01 March 2017The relationship between asset manager and insurer could be entering a new era, as WTW attempts to bring investors and managers into a single marketplace via its Asset Management Exchange. Asa Gibson talks to the man hoping to create the Amazon of investment, Oliver Jaegemann.
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The 2017 investment agenda
30 December 2016With 2016 drawing to a close, investors on behalf of insurers can look back on what was a particularly challenging year. They will be keen to steady the ship and step up investment performance in 2017. Asa Gibson reports