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Insurers' GA - cost or opportunity for affiliated asset managers?

Unlike banks, insurers enjoy a close relationship with their affiliated asset managers, to the point that an insurer's CIO can also be the manager's CEO. Although not prohibited by law, this arrangement raises ethical concerns - ones that regulators are well aware of. Vincent Huck reports

M&G invests £110m in Norwegian thermal battery technology company

EnergyNest develops technology to make electricity from industrial heat waste

Global growth to hit 7% this year, predicts Aviva Investors

Asset manager goes overweight global equities, but underweight emerging markets

Barings wins £250m real estate debt outsourcing deal for Phoenix's MA portfolio

To build portfolio of investment grade buy-and-hold UK commercial mortgage loans

European and Bermuda insurance investment report launched by Insurance Risk Data

Research details investment performance and allocation plans for more than 200 insurers in Europe and Bermuda

Eiopa puts hybrid products under cost microscope

Examination includes Europe's €2.9trn unit-linked market

Axa IM launches climate credit strategy

Designed to help institutional investors achieve net-zero goals

Macquarie wins PIC's mandate

To be invested in US private debt market

Barings acquires multifamily asset in Atlanta

Allianz Leben reveals equity fund losses, write-downs - and an improved 2020 investment result

Germany's largest life unit achieved 4.1% net yield