Asa Gibson

• IPO will bring life insurance and asset management closer together, says Axa chief

  10 May 2017

  Axa to float US business, including stake in manager AB – under new leadership, following loss of large institutional mandate

  

• Munich Re harvests gains to feed ZZR

  09 May 2017

  "Unusually high" gain realisation results in "inflated RoI of 3.6%"

  

• Berkshire's 'huge appetite' for wind and solar assets

  08 May 2017

  Tycoon Warren Buffett says no particular bias against solar, but expects to invest seven times more in wind by 2020

  

• Allianz refuses to expand coal exclusion policy to investment business

  05 May 2017

  Insurer divested €225m from coal companies and shed €1bn in bonds in the coal sector

• Emerging market debt and equities lift Argo's returns

  05 May 2017

  Alternatives shine 12 months after firm posts loss on investment

  

• Axa IMRA strengthens infrastructure equity team

  04 May 2017

  Jeffrey Woodard follows Mark Gilligan from UBS Asset Management

  

• Private equity and hedge funds boost MetLife's investment income

  04 May 2017

  Derivative hedging losses stemmed but remain a thorn in the side

  

• Vivat's investment business excludes coal mining companies

  03 May 2017

  Dutch asset manager Actiam will exclude companies that earn more than 15% of revenues from coal

  

• Axa IMRA buys €1bn European logistics portfolio

  03 May 2017

  Undersupply of prime stock and high demand through e-commerce make logistics sector "highly compelling"

  

• Allianz-led consortium acquires UK's largest water supplier

  02 May 2017

  Insurer attracted by industry's transparency and inflation-linked, predictable cashflows