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  • Manulife attracts $3bn in fixed income mandates

    19 May 2017

    Canadian insurer's asset management business enjoys $15bn increase in AuM in Q1

  • Capturing the illiquidity premium in the alternatives universe

    19 May 2017

    Ahead of speaking at next month's Insurance Asset Risk conference in London, Invesco's head of UK insurance Ed Collinge talks to Asa Gibson about trends, changing attitudes and capturing the illiquidity premium.

  • Investec moves into life insurance

    19 May 2017

    South African financial services group sees a hole in its offering amid greater competition in banking

  • MassMutual selects BNY's Eagle Investment Systems

    19 May 2017

    Data management system will feed into a centralised reporting ecosystem

  • L&G bolsters in-house property development team

    18 May 2017

    Construction and supply chain talents recruited for L&G Capital's residential property team

  • Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan and Mexico picked as EMD hotspots

    17 May 2017

    Aegon's UK asset management business Kames picks out EMD hotspots

  • Moving on from hedge funds: alternative risk premia

    17 May 2017

    Insurers have been looking at alternative risk premia strategies as a substitute for poorly performing hedge fund investments. The strategies offer a cheap and transparent way of getting exposure to hedge fund-like returns but there are complications. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • 'Third-party asset management is a natural extension for life insurers'

    17 May 2017

    But Moody's warns that increased exposure to equity markets could result in credit downgrade

  • US life and annuity firms lead industry's hedge fund exit

    16 May 2017

    AIG divested $4bn in 2016 but remains largest hedge fund investor

  • UK insurers rack up fines of £366m for investment activities

    15 May 2017

    Almost £100m more than insurance-related penalties