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MEAG appoints new CIO for alternative assets
08 March 2023Katja Lammert to take over from retiring Michael Bös
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L&G Capital invests in women-led impact investment advisory firm
07 March 2023As part of strategy to take stake in alternative asset managers and drive ESG issues
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AXA IM Alts targets infrastructure and debt as investors seek inflation shelter
07 March 2023Sees continued demand for diversification of assets amid macroeconomic situation
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Nippon Life increases ESG investment targets for 2030 to JPY 5trn
07 March 2023Nearly tripling previous 2023 goal
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Aon adds finance expert to UK investment team
07 March 2023Kempen Capital Management and LGIM veteran Cathy Lewis joins
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AXA invests $2m in nature tech company to help grow voluntary carbon markets
03 March 2023And funds reforestation project with €10m as part of Natural Capital & Impact strategy
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Royal London becomes signatory to UK FRC's Stewardship Code
03 March 2023Asset owner follows its internal asset manager in stewardship commitment
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Swiss Re warns of continued inflation risk, despite improved economic picture
02 March 2023Simulated asset portfolio tracking highlights importance of asset mix
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M&G invests $300m in fund supporting IP-backed businesses
02 March 2023Launched in partnership with Aon and part of impact-based Catalyst strategy
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Royal Insurance Group Pension Scheme agrees £2.7bn buy-in with PIC
02 March 2023Deal advised by WTW
- MetLife IM to acquire PineBridge Investments in $1.2bn deal
- Nippon Life flags greater outsourcing to improve investment returns
- Axa IM hails blockchain trials a success
- SBI Life backs Tokyo University, and trade in Africa, with sustainable bond investments
- BoE caught between inflation and sluggish economy, RLAM says
- How is time changing insurers appetite for private assets?
- Canada Life transfers £1.5bn bond portfolio to Chesnara
- Exploring the demand in affordable housing
- MEAG increases forestry investment in Finland
- European insurers shifting away from illiquids, S&P says
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Sustainable and impact mandates to make up half of UK insurers private market portfolios
26 December 2024In two years' time, L&G research says, up to 47% from 35% at present
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Chinese regulator updates rules to assess riskiness of equity investment managers
26 December 2024Sweeping reforms of asset-risk assessment by insurers will take effect from next July
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European insurers shifting away from illiquids, S&P says
25 December 2024Auditors' view allays agency's fears from last year, with S&P saying insurers shifting to "plain vanilla" assets
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Reduced capital bill for shares boosts Japan insurers' solvency since March
25 December 2024FSA says lower capital requirement by September benefitted capital adequacy
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How is time changing insurers appetite for private assets?
25 December 2024Matthew Bass, head of private alternatives at AllianceBernstein (AB), discusses with Insurance Asset Risk the trends in the private asset space, insurer's changing tastes and his predictions for 2025.
