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  • Robeco launches sustainable private debt fund to invest in Europe

    20 March 2023

    €130m secured will be invested based on UN SDGs

  • Phoenix Group invests £210m in Glasgow City Council property portfolio

    20 March 2023

    Investment will be used to fund equal pay liabilities

  • The return to the promised land

    20 March 2023

    After a decade of eking out pitiful returns on their traditional fixed income assets insurers are finally seeing the return of higher interest rates. Will this herald a shift out of risky assets? A recent publication by the NAIC outlines the possibilities. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • US insurers held $7bn in Credit Suisse bonds at end 2021

    17 March 2023

    A number of insurers have small size holdings in troubled bank

  • MetLife Investment Management grows agricultural assets 40% in five years up to 2022

    17 March 2023

    Including $4bn of assets originated in 2022

  • Aegon moves from portfolio management to investing in climate mitigation

    17 March 2023

    Dutch insurer models investment return against failed and disorderly transition scenarios

  • Swiss Life AM appoints head of infrastructure equity

    17 March 2023

    Christian Topp joins from Allianz Capital Partners

  • Chart of the Week: Will insurers join an 'orderly queue', outside Silicon Valley Bank?

    17 March 2023

    From Silicon Valley Bank to Signature Bank, Silvergate to Credit Suisse, all eyes are on financials exposure

  • Swiss Re reduces carbon intensity of corporate bonds and equities by 42%

    16 March 2023

    The reinsurer also highlights green transition opportunities

  • Gilts increasingly attractive as UK budget released, Royal London says

    16 March 2023

    Reduced inflation and slow economy responsible