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  • Insurers are the third-biggest alternative investors

    15 July 2014

    Represent 9% of top 100 alternative manager assets totaling $3.3trn

  • Aviva seeking closer ties with investments arm

    15 July 2014

    Aviva Investors will have more input to group ALM

  • European insurers threatened by interest-rate spike

    14 July 2014

    Rising rates one of top ten threats to insurance portfolios, says AM Best

  • "Drastic" shift in insurers' investments caused by prospect of Solvency II

    14 July 2014

    Data shows growth in covered bonds, decline in securitisation, says BAML

  • Wide variety in returns from with-profits funds

    11 July 2014

    Mutual insurers see investment in bonds underperform but equities and property post good returns, Barnett Waddingham exclusively reveals

  • Asset managers increase insurance AuM

    10 July 2014

    Specialist expertise key in attracting clients

  • DeAWM appoints Brown to head insurance solutions

    10 July 2014

    Also appointed head of Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management's UK operations

  • Solvency II will boost infrastructure investment, says S&P

    07 July 2014

    Agency estimates $80bn annual insurer investment globally

  • Law on lower guaranteed rate for life insurance passed in Germany

    07 July 2014

    Talanx has avoided shift to riskier assets

  • US P&C investment yields hit 50-year lows

    04 July 2014

    Returns of 3.1% are the lowest since 1965