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  • American Equity boosts private asset allocation to 22% of portfolio

    17 February 2023

    Insurer allocated $1.4bn to privates in Q4 at an average rate of 7%

  • Chart of the Week - Equities, a falling part of Germany's unit-linked industry?

    17 February 2023

    Germany's unit-linked equity funds suffer first consecutive falls in volume

  • Allianz IM buffered ETFs pass $1bn in assets

    16 February 2023

    Have been popular in periods of volatility

  • India government reveals re/insurers' Adani exposures

    16 February 2023

    Six re/insurers revealed as holding Adani equities and/or debt

  • AIG drops $489m on alternative investment income in Q4

    16 February 2023

    Insurer outsourced $200bn of assets to Blackstone and Blackrock last year

  • Why Securitized & Why Now: $12.5 Trillion Market Goes on Sale

    Today's securitized market presents a rare opportunity to add diversification via an asset class with the potential to provide defensive opportunities with outsized returns

  • Phoenix Group allocates £338m to multi asset climate solution

    15 February 2023

    And appoints Robeco as the solution's manager

  • Insurers need to outsource to meet alternative assets challenge

    15 February 2023

    State Street report suggests asset complexity a big issue for legacy systems

  • Insurers' investment risk 'in the raw' - laid bare in capital charge patterns

    15 February 2023

    Some fairly simple maths reveals the average pre-diversified capital charge that CIOs across Europe paid for their general account investing in 2020 and 2021. David Walker dug out the data

  • Most of Apollo's imitators will not be successful, chief executive says

    14 February 2023

    Newer PE-insurers "will learn very expensive lesson along the way", Rowan says