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  • New rule facilitates investments in Argentinian venture capital

    15 August 2018

    Insurers can now invest up to 1% of their net assets in entrepreneurial projects

  • "Government lacks urgency and boldness," UK impact investment unit

    14 August 2018

    Taskforce tells the Treasury and Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in interim feedback report

  • MEAG and Luxcara structure debt and equity deal for wind farm

    14 August 2018

    Deal includes project bonds worth and privately placed equity investment with the Munich Re group

  • Singaporean life insurance insurers' AuM boost

    14 August 2018

    Increase in assets under management strengthens the country’s position as Asia’s financial hub

  • US insurers pulling out of hedge funds

    14 August 2018

    Although insurers tend to have relatively low exposures to hedge funds, in recent years investments in the asset class have dropped amongst US insurers. However, changes in the economic environment suggest this trend could be reversed in the coming years. Vincent Huck reports

  • Australia’s largest insurers’ profits bolstered by investment returns

    13 August 2018

    Smaller insurers earned higher returns from underwriting activities, but earned lower returns from investment and suffered greater losses.

  • Regulatory change to cash reserve rule relieves gains pressure on Talanx

    13 August 2018

    German insurer cuts profit-taking, and ZZR contribution by 69%, ahead of expected law change

  • MassMutual looking to sell asset manager unit

    10 August 2018

    Deal on OppenheimerFunds could be worth more than $5bn

  • Widening spread of Italian debt takes big toll on capital ratios

    10 August 2018

    But hasn’t materially deteriorated insurers’ underlying risk profile, according to Moody’s

  • Climate change impacts asset value, UN study finds

    09 August 2018

    Insurers increasingly ESG screen their investments, but even the value of their favoured asset is at risk