Vincent Huck

• Asset shortage main challenge for annuity market pricing

  25 March 2019

  According to UK actuarial consultancy Lane Clark & Peacock

• Putting Chinese govvies in global index could trigger $151bn inflows

  21 March 2019

  Affects investors benchmarked to the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index

• Is it really a small world after all? Protectionism strikes back

  21 March 2019

  Most insurers’ chief investment officers and asset managers have grown up investing during the long trend of beneficial globalisation. The trend was their friend. But as evidence of its unravelling builds, they are asking if the elastic is just stretching or about to snap back. Vincent Huck went in search of answers

  

• Lower Solvency II charge for equities holds little appeal – JPMAM’s Haslip

  20 March 2019

  Idea of long-term equity interesting but unlikely to change insurers approach, says JP Morgan head of insurance

• Goldman Sachs AM and PZU to cooperate on investing

  19 March 2019

  Quid pro quo between PZU and GSAM is innovative approach

• Allianz mulls merger with DWS

  18 March 2019

  The combined business would have €1.2trn in AuM

• Nippon Life invests in SDGs corporate bond fund

  14 March 2019

  JPY 10bn investment will targets European corporate with strong SDGs record

• AllianzGI opens its infra fund to external investors

  14 March 2019

  Allianz European Infrastructure Fund targets €500m fundraising

• Regulation key to unlock greener investments, ABI says

  11 March 2019

  UK trade body responds to FCA’s discussion paper on climate change and green finance

• French insurers partner up for major unlisted SME funding initiative

  07 March 2019

  From Axa France to BNP Paribas Cardif and CNP Assurances, France’s largest have helped unlock €22.2bn of fund-based investments for French small caps. Their early-stage returns may be unclear. But their ambitions for the next phase of their investment is only the greater, the heavy hitters tell Vincent Huck