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  • Managing illiquid assets needs banking-like skills

    16 October 2015

    In part two of this InsuranceERM/Insurance Asset Risk and Standard Life Investments roundtable on illiquid assets, experts discuss the management capabilities required and how the assets fit into Solvency II

  • Prudential mortgage arm refinances 99 Bishopsgate

    15 October 2015

    Lends £181.5m on prime City tower

  • Many mutuals' with-profits funds excel

    12 October 2015

    Nearly 40% beat the large firms' performance in 2014, says Barnett Waddingham

  • Smoothing the flow in illiquid assets

    09 October 2015

    Illiquid assets have the potential to boost the yield and diversification of insurers' investments, but they are not a shoo-in to the portfolio, as discussed in part one of this InsuranceERM/Insurance Asset Risk and Standard Life Investments roundtable

  • Axa arm capitalises on buoyant German property market

    09 October 2015

    Clocks up €756m of deals since the beginning of 2015

  • Hardie cautiously re-risks Direct Line's portfolio

    08 October 2015

    Direct Line's investment boss Jim Hardie has been steering the UK general insurer's investment portfolio into more dynamic areas. But he is at pains to stress his conservative approach. By Sarfraz Thind

  • MetLife partners to build office tower in San Francisco

    08 October 2015

    The 43-storey building should be completed in mid-2018

  • LGIM urges companies to focus on low-carbon opportunities

    08 October 2015

    Don't just look at the risks, the firm says

  • US Prudential arm lends for UK student housing

    08 October 2015

    Provides $197m for five-property portfolio

  • M&G arm takes 70% stake in bioenergy group

    06 October 2015

    Infracapital commits £160m