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Wells Fargo Asset Management sets up shop in Paris and Frankfurt
03 January 2019It also expands Luxembourg licence to counter ‘prevailing uncertainty’ around Brexit
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Aviva Investors sells Leeds property for £32m
03 January 20191 City Square sold to APAM less than two months after listing
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Pimco buys muni bond specialist Gurtin
03 January 2019Completion of deal takes Allianz's US asset managers' municipal bond assets under management to $38bn
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Taiyo Life Insurance gives ¥2 billion green loan to to NYK
03 January 2019Japanese life insurer to finance construction of methanol-fuelled chemical tanker
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QBE Insurance moves assets to Brussels in post-Brexit plan
02 January 2019Australian insurer moves more than $1bn of assets to Belgian subsidiary QBE Europe
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Proposed Solvency II equity asset class is "unworkable"
28 December 2018European Commission urged to review its long-term equity proposal in the Solvency II standard formula review
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Sustainability is key insurance focus for BaFin in 2019
28 December 2018German regulator’s areas of focus mix regulation, investment, and technical issues in Solvency II
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Generali takes 12% stake in Trieste development
27 December 2018Italian insurer will be principal investor in Trieste Convention Centre
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Hyundai Marine & Fire invests $250m in US property fund
27 December 2018Investment affiliate buys into commercial real estate fund with capital provided by other South Korean insurers
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Outlook 2019: Diversification is the only free lunch left in town
27 December 2018Prashant Sharma, head of international fixed income insurance at JP Morgan Asset Management, predicts a slowdown in growth for 2019, but all is not lost for insurers’ assets and a bit of forward thinking and preparation could help the resilience of their investments in the case of a downturn.