Archive

  • 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.

  • MIM hires business development head, starts RE venture

    22 January 2016

    MetLife puts $1.4bn property portfolio into venture with pension fund

  • 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

  • Willis Towers Watson hires two investment consultants for insurance division

    20 January 2016

    WTW expects greater demand for insurance investment solutions

  • Allianz buys shopping centre in Slovakia

    19 January 2016

    Further diversification for real estate portfolio.

  • LGIM hires banker to head private debt business

    19 January 2016

    Asset manager will start in Europe but aim to build global business

  • Legal & General winds down first property fund

    19 January 2016

    L&G Property sells off remaining assets of first property fund

  • IAIS flags concern over illiquid corporate bond markets

    18 January 2016

    Supervisors urged to re-examine asset portfolios