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  • Pimco favours credit and real assets during economic stability

    24 August 2016

    Long-term economic uncertainty to be preceded by a period of calm in the markets

  • DB pensions and insurers eye £300bn of gilts

    23 August 2016

    Demand for assets to match rising liabilities

  • Reinsurers in the hunt for BBB-bonds

    23 August 2016

    Yield-hungry investors move down the credit curve, but stay within investment grade – S&P

  • Actuaries urge investors to diversify energy investments

    22 August 2016

    IFoA backs international initiative to phase out fossil fuel subsidies

  • Royal London misses with-profits ROI benchmark

    19 August 2016

    Lower investment returns a result of being underweighted in gilts

  • NN Group ramps up allocation to mortgage loans

    18 August 2016

    Realised gains on sovereign bond portfolio to take more credit risk

  • QBE extends asset duration amid bond market volatility

    18 August 2016

    Combats low sovereign yields with structured credit, infrastructure debt and corporate bonds

  • Quasi-government loans: an elusive illiquid

    17 August 2016

    Supply of much-wanted government-backed loans is short, but the UK's referendum may change that to the benefit of life insurers. Asa Gibson reports.

  • Delta Lloyd sheds a third of equity portfolio

    17 August 2016

    Cash holdings more than double

  • L&G in $660m University of California expansion project

    17 August 2016

    Deal will provide long-term returns to match pension liabilities