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  • Zurich turns around its hedge fund portfolio

    11 May 2017

    Asset class shows promise in otherwise disappointing quarter

  • Emerging market debt: fundamentally attractive

    10 May 2017

    With strong and improving fundamentals underpinning emerging market debt, AllianceBernstein's Arnaud Mounier and Shamaila Khan argue that insurers should consider the asset class as a core strategic allocation, rather than an opportunistic diversifier.

  • Hannover Re praises private equity and property as saviours of investment income

    10 May 2017

    German reinsurer only expects yields elsewhere to stop falling in 2018

  • Swiss Life takes IFRS hit on equity hedges

    10 May 2017

    Increased exposure to equity, did not realise gains to offset hedge impact

  • IPO will bring life insurance and asset management closer together, says Axa chief

    10 May 2017

    Axa to float US business, including stake in manager AB – under new leadership, following loss of large institutional mandate

  • Mapfre subscribes to UN's Responsible Investment Principles

    09 May 2017

    List of insurance signatories grows as pressure mounts on industry to invest responsibly

  • Munich Re harvests gains to feed ZZR

    09 May 2017

    "Unusually high" gain realisation results in "inflated RoI of 3.6%"

  • 'Regulatory framework is imperfect', says Chinese regulator

    08 May 2017

    Circ vows to crackdown on system loopholes, including fund allocations

  • Berkshire's 'huge appetite' for wind and solar assets

    08 May 2017

    Tycoon Warren Buffett says no particular bias against solar, but expects to invest seven times more in wind by 2020

  • Allianz refuses to expand coal exclusion policy to investment business

    05 May 2017

    Insurer divested €225m from coal companies and shed €1bn in bonds in the coal sector