Archive

  • 'Greater green bond issuance in Asia would attract insurers'

    07 March 2017

    Volumes in excess of $100m needed to entice the industry, says investment leader

  • Axa IMRA acquires Brisbane office

    07 March 2017

    Growing investor appetite for Australian real estate outside of Sydney and Melbourne

  • Allianz Real Estate buys office in Munich

    06 March 2017

    Leasing prospects "highly promising"

  • China's insurance watchdog considers abandoning one-size-fits-all regulation

    06 March 2017

    Rules could obstruct smaller, 'riskier' insurers' plans to invest overseas

  • Standard Life merges with Aberdeen to create UK's largest asset manager

    06 March 2017

    £3.8bn deal expected to achieve £200m annual savings

  • Swiss Life increases allocation to real estate

    03 March 2017

    Reports further growth in third party assets under management

  • UK student loan book: a political risk worth taking?

    03 March 2017

    The UK government has structured a tranche of the 2002 to 2006 student loan book to make it attractive to insurance investors. Insurers are wary of political risks, however. Callum Tanner reports

  • MetLife Investments appoints chief market strategist

    02 March 2017

    Drew Matus replaces Phil Melville

  • ETFs entice European insurers

    02 March 2017

    Market volatility, low interest rates and liquidity drive ETF use

  • Is the relationship between insurer and asset manager facing disruption?

    01 March 2017

    The relationship between asset manager and insurer could be entering a new era, as WTW attempts to bring investors and managers into a single marketplace via its Asset Management Exchange. Asa Gibson talks to the man hoping to create the Amazon of investment, Oliver Jaegemann.