Asa Gibson

• French elections are "crucial" for future of Europe, says NN's CIO

  28 April 2017

  Political events emerge as number one concern for insurance investment chiefs in Goldman Sachs Asset Management's survey of insurance investors, having not been considered as a threat in 2015. Asa Gibson reports

  

• Fairfax posts $18.4m Q1 investment losses

  28 April 2017

  Losses stemmed but equities continue to plague the group's investment returns

  

• Scor divests from tobacco

  27 April 2017

  Cash holdings reduced, fixed income duration increased and rebalanced towards corporate bonds

  

• Phoenix funds £45m Birmingham housing project

  26 April 2017

  Cashflows in excess of gilts will back annuity book, and sit in matching adjustment portfolio

  

• Outsourced or in-house: Zurich's CIO on finding the right balance

  26 April 2017

  Urban Angehrn oversees Zurich Insurance Group's $190bn asset book. With no pure asset management business in the group, he talks to Asa Gibson about selecting managers, deciding when to manage in-house and the importance of responsible investment.

  

• Chinese regulator demands improvement in investment risk management

  24 April 2017

  Requires firms to establish better systems to control liquidity risk and fund management

  

• L&G adds £52m industrial estate to its UK property portfolio

  24 April 2017

  Asset located in Greater London offers net initial yield of 6.15%

  

• QBE issues green bonds to buy green bonds

  21 April 2017

  Becomes first global insurer to launch green bond

• Mitsui Life plots dollar-to-euro shift as hedging costs mount

  21 April 2017

  Japanese insurers caught between a rock and a hard place with near-zero and negative domestic bonds

  

• Bund yields vulnerable as QE draws to a close

  19 April 2017

  The end of the ECB's €2trn QE programme will lead to a rebalancing of the European fixed income market, with the repricing of German debt likely to be significant