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Unrealised losses on bonds restrict reinsurance sector’s overall return
11 January 2019Investment yield appears to have bottomed-out and showed a small uptick to 2.7% in the first nine months of 2018, according to Aon reinsurance outlook
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40% of insurers grew Solvency II investment risk in 2017
11 January 2019According to research by Insurance Risk Data
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European Commission provides the sustainability weapon... ammunition to follow
10 January 2019Investment professionals have given a mixed reaction to draft EU rules on integrating sustainability in the fiduciary duty of investment firms and insurers. These rules are tied to another piece of legislation currently being designed and whose outcome could lead to significant change… or further greenwashing. Vincent Huck reports
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Indian insurers’ real assets exposure up 15.7%
10 January 2019Regulator data shows three-quarters of total commitments to asset class come from life sector
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Global Atlantic appoints deputy CIO
09 January 2019Anup Agarwal joins insurer from Western Asset Management
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Korea Post Insurance commits $50m to US venture capital fund
09 January 2019Chicago-based Adams Street Partners will manage the VC
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French insurers cut allocation to financials’ debt
08 January 2019Regulator reveals French insurers invested €2.5trn in the first half of 2018
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Axa IMRA spends ¥100bn on Japanese logistics assets
08 January 2019Firm forms joint-venture with ESR and acquires five assets in Greater Tokyo and one in Greater Osaka
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Trend towards illiquids here to stay, BlackRock report finds
08 January 2019Two-thirds of surveyed insurers are to increase allocations in real assets, with just under three quarters planning to increase private credit
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Video: Fiduciary duty evolved in light of sustainable finance
08 January 2019Erick Decker, CIO for the Mediterranean and LATAM regions at Axa, tells Vincent Huck how asset managers' fiduciary duty has evolved because of the integration of environmental, social and governance criteria in the investment process.