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  • Axa IMRA buys €77m Spanish residential development

    17 September 2019

    This is AXA’s asset manager third investment in Spain’s residential market

  • German insurers shift bond holdings from domestic market to France

    17 September 2019

    Eiopa statistics reveal a marginal shift in allocation

  • Will BBB come back to bite?

    17 September 2019

    Is the end of the credit cycle really in sight and, if so, are European insurers at risk of seeing their high yield assets coming back to bite them? A wave of credit downgrades could significantly impact solvency ratios and put insurers in the position of forced sellers. But how worried should they be? Vincent Huck reports

  • Longer-term products push Chinese life firms into more property, alternatives

    16 September 2019

    Fitch expects Hong Kong-listed companies to want more strategic equities, too

  • Aviva Investors hires head of ESG for real assets

    16 September 2019

    The firm has a £45bn real assets portfolio

  • How Europe's insurers are falling out of love with their governments

    16 September 2019

    Local sovereigns often took biggest culls from general accounts in 2018, Eiopa data shows

  • Weight of market risk in non-life’s SCR on the rise across Europe

    16 September 2019

    Greeks, Danes and Belgians increase mean market risk proportions of SCR the most, Insurance Risk Data reveals

  • Eiopa reveals 12.9% of insurers’ investments exposed to climate risk

    13 September 2019

    EU financial regulators publish report on risk and vulnerability in EU financial system

  • Exclusive: ShareAction releases guide on managing climate risks

    13 September 2019

    Guide based on interviews with 14 insurers globally

  • Investment returns of median insurer fail to cover guarantees

    12 September 2019

    Eiopa reveals a 1.4% shortfall