Sarfraz Thind

Articles by Sarfraz Thind

  • Folksam invests $400m in EIB green bonds

    20 April 2018

    Swedish insurer Folksam is investing SKr3bn ($400m) in green bonds issued by the European Investment Bank, its biggest acquisition of green bonds to date.

  • Mitsui Life to boost foreign bond investment by over $2.2bn

    19 April 2018

    Japan's Mitsui Life Insurance plans to increase foreign bond investments by more than 240bn yen ($2.23bn) in the next 12 months, according to reports from Reuters.

  • European insurers increased equity exposure by 2% over six years

    18 April 2018

    Europe's insurers increased allocation to equity by 2% in the years between 2011 and 2016, while decreasing fixed income exposure, according to a report by AM Best.

  • Aberdeen Standard equity restructure sees six fund managers depart

    17 April 2018

    Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has restructured its equity division leading to the departure of six fund managers.

  • Anbang faces asset break-up

    13 April 2018

  • Aviva appoints Blackie for third-party development

    12 April 2018

    Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva, has appointed Steven Blackie as head of global product strategy to focus on the company's third-party business development.

  • Axa offloads $32bn of Swiss liabilities

    11 April 2018

    AXA Switzerland is transferring CHF31bn ($32bn) of insurance liabilities off its balance sheet in a bid to shed capital intensive "full value insurance" businesses, the insurer said.

  • Trump tax law decimates P&C demand for municipal bonds

    11 April 2018

    Last year's US tax law is destroying insurer demand for municipal bonds, once considered the most attractive surplus cash investment for the country's property and casualty insurers. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Scottish Widows likely to split SLA assets among several managers

    09 April 2018

    Scottish Widows is likely to allocate the £109bn ($153bn) it is pulling from Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) among "several asset managers," according to Bloomberg.

  • Scor raises €1bn of third-party assets in 2017

    09 April 2018

    Scor Investment Partners, the asset management arm of Scor, raised €1bn ($1.2bn) of assets from external institutional investors in 2017, the company said today.