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PFC calls on UK government to support housing and infrastructure investment
03 March 2025New report reveals half of local authorities saw declines in infrastructure investment between 2018 and 2022
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Rothesay commits £150m to UK housing retrofit fund guaranteed by NWF
28 February 2025Unsecured debt facility launched by THFC and guaranteed by NWF to unlock long-term unsecured capital for RPs at pricing usually reserved for secured lending
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Northern Trust receives custody and valuation reporting mandate from Generation Life
27 February 2025On AU $1.5bn of firm's portfolio assets
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Schroders to manage £400m of Utmost's annuity book
27 February 2025Following insurer's move into the UK BPA market in January
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AllianzGI vows to target directors at investee companies lacking credible net-zero strategies at AGMs
27 February 2025Firm also continues to be concerned about remuneration practices in Europe
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Insurers have fortified their RE debt platforms - and now rival banks
26 February 2025With banks retrenching from RE debt thanks to regulation, insurers are fortifying their positions and building out their platforms - with Europe set to become more like the US market
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Axa IM sale supports S&P outlook boost for parent group to 'positive'
26 February 2025Firm would also be resilient to the potential negative impact of a sovereign stress event on France, agency says
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PIC backs Peel Ports Group with £50m loan
25 February 2025Peel Ports owns eight port infrastructure sites across the UK and Ireland
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M&G signs £111m BPA deal with mystery asset manager
25 February 2025Firm has written £1.5bn of new business since re-entering the market in September 2023
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Canada Life Asset Management backs acquisition of London office asset with £18m loan
25 February 2025Provided to real estate company SG Rocks, to buy York House
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- Lloyd's syndicate makes 36% on hedge fund, and 27% from gold, in 2024
- Conning maps out landscape and attractions of esoteric ABS for insurers
- Royal London flags further diversification of £1.8bn MA asset portfolio
- Fitch predicts boost for Viridium's asset management arm from BlackRock deal
- PGIM subsidiary acquires private equity portfolio from parent firm
- Nippon Life joins GIIN
- Tokio Marine unit names Mitsubishi in latest $1.3bn strategic-stake sell-off
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No clear path for countries' tariff negotiations, investors and managers say
07 April 2025Tariff calculation methodology means volatility is here for a while and is more about trade deficits than unfair tariffs
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Columbia Threadneedle acquires UK Property Fund from Nuveen
07 April 2025Deal adds 16 principally industrial and retail assets into the Threadneedle Property Unit Trust and takes NAV to £1bn
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Future looked murky, investors say - even before Trump tariffs
07 April 2025Speakers at Insurance Asset Risk's recent Investing in Real Assets conference in London warned that mixed messaging from the White House and the Federal Reserve was creating headaches for investors
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Tariff chaos could wipe out growth for year, but likely to be tempered by negotiations, Conning says
07 April 2025President Trump's announcement last week could represent "peak" of uncertainty caused by the current administration
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Chinese regulator lays down rules for major PE investing by insurers
07 April 2025The NFRA also called upon insurers to bolster their equity investment decision-making procedures