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Lancashire Holdings highlights hedge funds as driver of investment returns
27 July 2017UK insurer says equities also contributed to first-half gains
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Insurers pile into French fintech fund
26 July 2017Swiss Life, Groupama, SocGen, Natixis and Vaudoise commit to new fund targeting insurtech and regtech
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'You never asked!' – asset managers respond to look-through data criticism
25 July 2017Practitioners in the asset management sector have hit back against the notion that they failed to deliver on asset reporting data
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Insurers blame asset managers for insufficient look-through
21 July 2017European insurers pass the buck onto asset managers for lack of reporting data, but Eiopa pursues a hard line with underwriters facing difficulty getting hands on investment data. David Walker reports
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'How do I report my Deutschmark bonds?': Eiopa publishes Pillar III queries
20 July 2017Investments prove to be the single most challenging aspect of Pillar III reporting
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Risk margin hampers insurers investing for social good, says ABI
17 July 2017Association argues Solvency II measure deters life underwriters from long-term investments
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Pimco seals definitive deal with Unicredit for Italy's largest bad loan transaction
17 July 2017Affiliate of Allianz will run special purpose vehicle, along with hedge fund Fortress
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UK insurers can combat expiry of transitionals, say practitioners
14 July 2017Experts say risk margin and transitional measures expiry need not trigger risk asset sell-off, as predicted by the Bank of England
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UK life sector appetite for risk assets to drop by one-third
07 July 2017Bank of England posits influence of Solvency II risk margin as the main driver
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German life underwriters favour funds for new investments
06 July 2017Fund-based investments attracted 43% of fresh allocations made by the sector in 2016
