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Zurich turns around its hedge fund portfolio
11 May 2017Asset class shows promise in otherwise disappointing quarter
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Emerging market debt: fundamentally attractive
10 May 2017With 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.
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Hannover Re praises private equity and property as saviours of investment income
10 May 2017German reinsurer only expects yields elsewhere to stop falling in 2018
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Swiss Life takes IFRS hit on equity hedges
10 May 2017Increased exposure to equity, did not realise gains to offset hedge impact
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IPO will bring life insurance and asset management closer together, says Axa chief
10 May 2017Axa to float US business, including stake in manager AB – under new leadership, following loss of large institutional mandate
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Mapfre subscribes to UN's Responsible Investment Principles
09 May 2017List of insurance signatories grows as pressure mounts on industry to invest responsibly
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Munich Re harvests gains to feed ZZR
09 May 2017"Unusually high" gain realisation results in "inflated RoI of 3.6%"
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'Regulatory framework is imperfect', says Chinese regulator
08 May 2017Circ vows to crackdown on system loopholes, including fund allocations
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Berkshire's 'huge appetite' for wind and solar assets
08 May 2017Tycoon Warren Buffett says no particular bias against solar, but expects to invest seven times more in wind by 2020
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Allianz refuses to expand coal exclusion policy to investment business
05 May 2017Insurer divested €225m from coal companies and shed €1bn in bonds in the coal sector