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Allianz puts $117m in African infrastructure fund

L&G invests £180m in Woodside industrial estate

LGIM Real Assets, the property business of Legal & General (L&G) Investment Management, has acquired Woodside Industrial Estate in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, from investment firm Harbert Management Corporation for £182.3m ($256.9m).

PRA to review life insurers' risk taking in "complex" illiquid investments

A lack of external credit ratings and observable market prices makes it difficult to assess insurers' risk-taking in increasingly popular illiquid asset classes, according to the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA).

Scottish Widows likely to split SLA assets among several managers

Scottish Widows is likely to allocate the £109bn ($153bn) it is pulling from Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) among "several asset managers," according to Bloomberg.

Scor raises €1bn of third-party assets in 2017

Scor Investment Partners, the asset management arm of Scor, raised €1bn ($1.2bn) of assets from external institutional investors in 2017, the company said today.

M&G grows European real estate portfolio with Parisian office purchase

ASI launches first European property fund for insurers and pension funds

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI), the asset management business of Standard Life Aberdeen, has launched a European Residential Property Fund targeting insurers and pension funds.

Axa IMRA continues European drive with Belgian office deal

EU to cut Solvency II securitisation charges "before summer"

Draft rules suggest the capital charges of securitisations could be significantly cut this year as the European Commission takes steps to bring Solvency II in line with the STS framework. So will this spur future securitisation investment? Aggelos Andreou reports.

Willis Towers Watson combines investment with insurance offering