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NN Group and BNG Bank unlock €300m for social real estate investments

Funding for sustainable improvements to schools, town halls and other public buildings

Axa calculates climate risk for asset portfolio

Value-at-risk analysis shows corporate bonds more resilient than equities

Pimco to securitise £5bn of UKAR mortgages

Pimco and Barclays to securitise recent mortgage purchase to take advantage of investor demand

Allianz lends €300m for Apple store acquisition

German insurer Allianz has provided €300m ($362m) to German pension fund Bayerische Versorgung-skammer (BVK) to support the acquisition of a retail asset in Paris, sold by EPI, a French independent investment group.

L&G launches affordable housing provider

Insurance CIOs increase non-traditional allocations

Chief investment officers of several insurers have increased allocation to non-traditional and non-investment grade assets, according to investment firm KKR.

PRA threatens section 166 investigations for excessive matching adjustment applications

Pimco to buy £5bn of collapsed bank mortgages

Pimco, the largest bond fund manager in the world, is to buy £5bn ($5.7bn) of mortgages from collapsed British banks, Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley, according to Sky News.

Blackrock, JPMorgan AM and Schroders into second round for Scottish Widows £109bn mandate

BlackRock, JPMorgan Asset Management and Schroders have been invited into a second round of bidding for Scottish Widows' £109bn ($152bn) investment mandate, according to the FT.

Aberdeen Standard Investments' CIO's interesting 12 months

Rod Paris, CIO at Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI), talks about the company's transformational twelve months following the merger and that cancelled Scottish Widows mandate, likely to cost the company some 20% of its assets. By Sarfraz Thind