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US yield curve inversion - run for the hills?
10 June 2019Like a bad tarot card, an inverted US yield curve normally means economic doom. March’s inversion has now morphed into the most inverted yield curve since 2007. It is likely to have insurers gazing into their charts to see how to tackle their investments. Sarfraz Thind reports
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Metlife IM appoints head of client solutions for real estate
10 June 2019Adam Ruggiero will lead the new unit
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Axa IMRA buys Danish property for €174m
10 June 2019Axa’s investment affiliate acquires 36,200 sqm development in Copenhagen
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Barings raises $943m in maiden private equity real asset fund
10 June 2019MassMutal-owned asset manager targets insurers and other institutional investors with first commingled fund
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Negative rates needed to stave off crisis, warns SCOR Investment Partners CIO
07 June 2019Fed chairs decision not to increase rates should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism
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Aegon AM steps closer to establishing Chinese business
07 June 2019Asset manager signs MoU with Shanghai Lujiazui Administration Bureau
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Non-life industry cuts back outsourced bond managers to add specialists, research finds
07 June 2019Industry split on hedging out FX risk on foreign bond investments
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Natixis Investment Managers to launch infrastructure equity affiliate
07 June 2019Vauban Infrastructure Partners will be spun out of Mirova and manage €2.8bn
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Aberdeen and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank form Japanese real estate JV
07 June 2019Joint venture to co-invest and co-manage portfolio of residential assets in Japan and other mature Asia Pacific markets
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Prudential extols virtues of private debt
06 June 2019CIO Schmidt says company positioning itself against market downturn