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  • IAG pulls out of hedge funds but holds firm on PE

    21 August 2023

    Full-year results revealed the HF redemption today

  • US insurer mortgage loans grew 8.6% in 2022 even as CRE market faces crunch year

    21 August 2023

    Insurers held $727bn in mortgage loans at end-2022, NAIC finds

  • Are we there yet?

    21 August 2023

    Central bank base rates continue to climb to decades-long highs over the summer, leaving market participants in a blur as to how far away the peak is

  • US equities star in Varma's positive H1 2023 investment results

    18 August 2023

    But CEO warns of Finnish recession

  • Rates peak heralds return of the 60/40 split, Fidelity International says

    18 August 2023

    Asset Manager thinks negative US equities and bonds correlation likely to stick this time

  • US bond yields not a crisis - but the risks have grown, says Swiss Re

    18 August 2023

    Yield surge requires ever more disciplined insurer balance sheet management

  • Chart of the Week - 'Build it and they will come' - German insurers and Spezialfonds

    18 August 2023

    Since 2009 German institutions made 3.9% in their Spezialfonds - and expanded allocations by 167%

  • Aegon to hone focus on alternatives as rates bite into core fixed income

    18 August 2023

    US financial asset exposure being trimmed in favour of strategic assets

  • Rothesay completes £440m buy-in with P&O Pension Scheme

    17 August 2023

    Scheme had previously completed a buy-in with Rothesay-acquired Paternoster

  • Link serves up Hong Kong Big Mac, extra green, hold the carbon

    17 August 2023

    McDonald's restaurant in Tai Wo Plaza is Link's first LEED Zero Carbon tenancy and part of green lease initiative