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  • Barings acquires €13m German retail park for Stuttgarter Versicherung

    15 September 2020

    Stuttgarter uses property Spezialfonds for investment

  • Stress-tested: How COVID-19 put insurers' investments under pressure

    14 September 2020

    The impact of the pandemic on insurers' claims remains unknown, and estimates vary widely. However, market turbulence in H1 has clearly impacted the asset side of insurers' balance sheets. Already, though, underwriters are looking ahead and rethinking investment decisions and ensuring resilience. Vincent Huck surveys the damage done and the plans afoot

  • Aberdeen to buy strategic stake in Aviva Singapore

    14 September 2020

    Unit manages SG$ 11.8bn of assets

  • Insurers to increase allocation to ETFs, Insurance Asset Risk survey finds

    11 September 2020

    As global ETFs and ETPs reach $7trn

  • Swiss Life AM expands real assets offering to infra debt financing

    11 September 2020

    Affiliate commits to investing €1.5bn in next three years, initially for the group Swiss, French and German insurers

  • Chart: Swiss insurers' 2019 investments

    11 September 2020

    24% real estate weighting, source of concern for the regulator

  • Germany's ESG fund market crosses €100bn threshold

    11 September 2020

    Nearly all funds managed by BVI members apply Principles for Responsible Investing

  • Eastspring appoints new CEO for Thailand

    11 September 2020

    Asset manager to merge two Thai businesses

  • US credit markets rebound better than expected, says MetLife CFO

    11 September 2020

    Insurer has been able to prune risk in COVID-19 downturn

  • PGIM poaches AllianzGI's head of global ESG research

    10 September 2020

    Unanyants-Jackson had been with the German asset manager since 2016