Archive

  • Securian more than triples its external insurance AuM

    21 November 2014

    Boost will come from buying majority stake in AAM

  • ECM launches EU infrastructure fund

    20 November 2014

    Targets €750m in closed-ended platform

  • Weighing up the capital charges for assets under Solvency II

    19 November 2014

    Gareth Mee runs through the capital charges that will apply to assets commonly held by insurers and explains where internal models could bring a better or worse treatment than the standard formula

  • No signs of herd behaviour in insurers' search for yield, says Eiopa

    19 November 2014

    Regulation must not spur buying of any asset class, according to Bernardino

  • Insurers' DGFs show heavy bias towards equities

    18 November 2014

    DGF market will top $300bn by 2018, says Spence Johnson

  • Spread risk "at top of CEO agenda"

    18 November 2014

    Low yields have led insurers to take more asset risk

  • L&G launches "social property" strategy with Patron

    17 November 2014

    Targetting an initial £200m of deals

  • Silverfinch and Fundsquare partner for Solvency II look-through solution

    17 November 2014

    Aim is European standard data model

  • Gross's 2013 Pimco bonus $290m; Allianz's Diekmann paid $9m

    17 November 2014

    Pimco says bonus figures "not correct"

  • Revisiting replicating portfolios

    14 November 2014

    The benefits of using orthogonal calibration with principal component analysis of the candidate assets when calibrating a replicating portfolio are explained by Alexey Botvinnik, Dr Mario Hoerig, Dr Florian Ketterer, Alexander Tazov and Florian Wechsung