Archive

  • Insurers overestimate business valuation, Milliman research suggests

    26 October 2016

    Consultancy advocates market-consistent embedded value reporting

  • Ethias closes duration gap after interest rates shock

    26 October 2016

    Actions include selling ABS and switching mortgages from floating to fixed rate

  • Axa IMRA's Italian fund makes first investment

    26 October 2016

    Adds to growing Munich real estate portfolio

  • L&G's East London BTR scheme gets green light

    25 October 2016

    Insurer has 900 UK BTR properties in planning or under construction

  • Isle of Man sale allows Axa to focus on UK asset management

    24 October 2016

    Insurer confirms sale of Axa Life Europe's offshore investment bonds business

  • LGIM Real Assets lends £175m to Arora

    24 October 2016

    Fixed-rate, 15-year loan marks the second deal between the companies

  • M&G to reopen UK property fund in November

    21 October 2016

    Manager forced to sell or exchange 58 properties following post-Brexit investor panic

  • Insurers predict secondary market for matching adjustment assets

    20 October 2016

    But some fear regulators will be wary of systemic risks

  • The data crunch

    19 October 2016

    Solvency II and asset diversification strategies have added a mountain of data to the insurance investment process, prompting insurers to look at new initiatives to tackle the issue. Sarfraz Thind reports.

  • Matching adjustment rules are tying asset managers in knots

    19 October 2016

    Investment managers need freedom to exercise skills, experts say