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  • Scor Investment Partners acquires ILS fund manager

    23 May 2019

    Scor IP now has an aggregate $2.1bn ILS assets under management

  • Solvency II acts as investment barrier, European insurers survey finds

    23 May 2019

    Insurance Europe spells out industry priorities for 2020 Solvency II review

  • Axa IMRA boosts forestry purchases in Ireland and France

    22 May 2019

    ASR Nederland reveals it planted forests in Netherlands, Bolivia

  • LGIM Real Assets hires two to private credit team

    22 May 2019

    Sarah Aitken to take the lead on infrastructure asset management with Amie Stow joining as private credit specialist.

  • PIMCO ESG: Pushing Bond Markets Further

    Given the size of the global fixed income market, corporate and sovereign issuers could play an essential role in sourcing the $3-$5 trillion annually needed to meet the UN SDGs.

  • Guggenheim warns of great truffle hunt for yield

    21 May 2019

    Corporate bond ratings like residential mortgages of 2008, says Walsh

  • Allianz Africa CIO: investing in nascent capital markets

    21 May 2019

    In London to speak at the 2019 Africa Financial Services Investment Conference, Allianz chief investment officer for Africa Jens Köke, took the time between two meetings for a quick coffee – double expresso – with Insurance Asset Risk. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Korean life insurers to shift US allocation to Europe and Australia, Moody’s says

    21 May 2019

    Allocation to foreign assets likely to continue growing, according to the rating agency

  • Commerzbank extends AllianzGI’s mandate

    21 May 2019

    The €21.5bn asset management mandates equates to just under a quarter of AllianzGI’s AuM in its multi-asset investment strategy

  • Insurer-backed BlackRock fund buys 115MW solar portfolio in Taiwan

    21 May 2019

    Half of BlackRock global renewables investment platform $5bn AuM comes from insurers