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  • Japanese insurer takes first step towards divestment from coal

    10 May 2018

    Believed to be the first time that a Japanese financial institution has announced such a policy.

  • Foresters Friendly ready to dump sterling assets to tackle Brexit

    09 May 2018

    Corrado Pistarino, chief investment officer at Foresters Friendly, outlines his firm's risk management strategy if things deteriorate with Brexit and what asset managers need to do in order to win mandates from insurance clients. By Cintia Cheong

  • California conducts US insurance investment climate risk study

    09 May 2018

    Stress test conducted to determine climate-related risk to insurance industry investments

  • Axa Investment Managers enters Irish private rented sector

    09 May 2018

    Joint venture with Kennedy Wilson, investing into a 1,173 portfolio

  • Allianz Real Estate appoints DaSilva to head US loan and assets group

    09 May 2018

    Allianz Real Estate, the property arm of the German insurer, has appointed Peggy DaSilva as head of the loan and asset management group for the Americas.

  • ICBC-Axa gets green light to set up Chinese asset manager

    08 May 2018

    First Sino-foreign joint venture to be granted approval to set up asset management arm

  • Standard Life Aberdeen challenges Lloyds’ decision to axe Scottish Widows portfolio

    08 May 2018

    SLA seeking to hold onto £109bn portfolio

  • Axa hedges equity risk with derivatives purchase

    04 May 2018

    Boosts solvency ratio by 8 percentage points

  • Aviva Investors to sell its £5bn indirect real estate business

    04 May 2018

    Fund manager believed to be closing in on a deal with LaSalle Investment Management

  • Allianz to stop investing in coal completely by 2040

    04 May 2018

    German insurer Allianz has announced it will phase out investments in the coal sector completely by 2040.