Archive

  • Insurers pin hopes on 'Juncker plan' to ease infrastructure investment

    26 November 2014

    Commission relies on private investors to boost growth

  • Larosière asks Eiopa to take "second look" at securitisations

    26 November 2014

    Solvency II capital charges produce "undesirable effects"

  • Aviva Investors to exit hedge fund business

    26 November 2014

    End of the road for US fund-of-hedge-funds

  • Phoenix transfers £21bn to Standard Life

    26 November 2014

    Similar sum to be transferred in coming years

  • Investment yields to decline "for a couple more years yet"

    25 November 2014

    But premiums should grow, says Swiss Re's chief economist

  • The art of asset allocation

    25 November 2014

    Creating an asset allocation policy is only the first step in an insurer's asset management business. Getting the policy implemented is a whole separate challenge. Julian Temes, head of strategy implementation at Zurich, talks to Sarfraz Thind about the nitty gritty of execution.

  • Friends Life and Aviva merger spells bad news for asset managers

    24 November 2014

    Aviva Investors would take over outsourced mandates

  • Axa estimates impact of flat reinvestment rates

    21 November 2014

    Earnings cut by €40m a year for life & savings unit

  • Chinese insurer buys Sydney hotel

    21 November 2014

    Sunshine pays $399m for Sheraton on the Park

  • Securian more than triples its external insurance AuM

    21 November 2014

    Boost will come from buying majority stake in AAM