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  • Italian insurers' path to diversification

    02 October 2018

    Industry veteran Michele Gaffo, formerly the CIO of Allianz Italia and Poste Vita now at asset management firm DWS, tells David Walker how Italian reinsurers are reacting to the latest spike in volatility and getting ready for the next one.

  • Prudential appoints chair to oversee demerger

    02 October 2018

    Mike Evans will oversee M&G Prudential operations as it prepares for demerger

  • Axa IMRA increases hotel portfolio to €2.3bn

    02 October 2018

    Asset manager also agrees long term pre-let for another property in the French capital

  • US insurers’ dilemma of protecting portfolio against boosting profitability

    01 October 2018

    As they position themselves for upcoming downturn

  • Just Group CFO to depart after 12-year spell

    01 October 2018

    David Richardson will replace Simon Thomas on an interim basis

  • Aviva Investors expands Dutch portfolio with innovation centre purchase

    28 September 2018

    Property fully let to food giant Danone

  • Rothesay Life buys £860m in equity release mortgages

    28 September 2018

    Assets from collapsed Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley will sell for net loss with sale price heavily discounted over NNEG

  • Merged Norwegian insurer to hold $2.46bn in assets

    28 September 2018

    Third-party asset management arrangement to be unaffected when Sparebank 1 and DNB insurance arms become one

  • Blackstone hires CRO for insurance investment arm

    28 September 2018

    Former XL Catlin head of global strategy Tsana Nobles will focus on risk assessing investments at Blackstone

  • Regulation redefines relations between insurers and asset managers

    27 September 2018

    In the second part of Insurance Asset Risk's insurer-asset manager survey we examine how Solvency II has shifted the dynamic for insurance asset managers. Insurers are not always getting the tailor-made solutions, research and expertise they ask for. By Sarfraz Thind