Archive

  • Sun Life Financial to buy real estate investment manager

    16 June 2015

    Bentall Kennedy purchase will expand insurer's asset management capabilities

  • Insurers and regulators still at odds over infrastructure investment

    05 June 2015

    Insurers' investment in infrastructure has stalled in the face of legal uncertainties over long-term commitments, proposed Solvency II capital charges that seem too high to the industry and growing competition for infrastructure assets. Sarfraz Thind explains

  • Yie-Hsin Hung becomes CEO of NYLIM

    22 May 2015

    Reports to new head of investments group

  • Swedish insurer invests in Helsinki offices

    18 May 2015

    AMF takes 50% stake in property portfolio

  • EC should reduce obstacles to long-term investment

    15 May 2015

    Insurance Europe urges EC action on infrastructure, securitisations, derivatives and accounting

  • Funding of long-term projects threatened, says Munich Re chairman

    07 May 2015

    Group's $8bn for infrastructure depends on "reliability of terms and conditions"

  • Time is running out for Greece

    27 April 2015

    Endgame in about six weeks, says JP Morgan; Draghi stresses about banks

  • Navigating the hard realities of policy divergence

    31 March 2015

    The European Central Bank (ECB) unleashing quantitative easing just as the US Federal Reserve sits at the cusp of tightening is causing global currency spasms and market angst. Iain Stealy describes how insurance companies investing in bonds might react to these developments

  • US life insurers buy more triple-B paper

    27 March 2015

    But a more holistic portfolio approach is needed, says Conning

  • Hill spells out insurers' role in European long-term projects

    18 March 2015

    Capital Markets Union will provide framework for infrastructure investment