Outsourcing

  • Embattled Thai insurer gets M&A offer for affiliated manager

    03 January 2025

    M&A would raise much-needed capital that its regulator demands

  • Japan Post progresses property outsourcing goal worth "several hundred billion yen"

    02 January 2025

    Daido Life is also expanding its local real estate portfolio

  • Chinese regulator updates rules to assess riskiness of equity investment managers

    26 December 2024

    Sweeping reforms of asset-risk assessment by insurers will take effect from next July

  • Nippon Life flags greater outsourcing to improve investment returns

    24 December 2024

    Japanese lifer will add about $85bn to portfolio if Resolution purchase proceeds

  • Nippon Life can manage risks of funded re after Resolution M&A, S&P Global Ratings predicts

    16 December 2024

    But ratings agency expects parties to deal to watch regulatory developments closely

  • Carlyle-owned asset manager scores massive win in outsourcing by Nippon Life

    16 December 2024

    TCW could win mandate worth up to $3.3bn from lifer

  • Varma invests €500m in Japanese climate ETF

    06 December 2024

    Fund is managed by Nomura Asset Management

  • APAC Weekly - Is outsourcing being instrumentalised for national strategies?

    03 December 2024

    It seems infrastructure is not the only kind of investment activity an APAC insurer's CIO can now do, to 'help the nation'

  • HANSAINVEST Real Assets announces filling of Essen offices

    28 November 2024

    Affiliated manager has about 10bn in property and renewables/infrastructure

  • Aviva Investors launches private debt LTAF

    27 November 2024

    Multi-sector private debt LTAF has received initial £750m from Aviva's flagship My Future Focus default pensions solution

  • Private credit markets hit $3trn, report finds

    22 November 2024

    Allianz GI and Pemberton and Apollo among insurance managers informing new research

  • Taiwan's insurance regulator proposes amending rules for discretionary outsourcing

    18 November 2024

    Changes being consulted on would dovetail with FSC's goal of promoting asset management

  • Da-ichi Life outsources JPY 1bn of IT startup investing to local emerging manager

    18 November 2024

    Lifer hopes to expand exit opportunities, supporting fundraising for start-ups

  • Investors want to see managers engage on biodiversity, Axa IM says

    14 November 2024

    As clients increasingly invest in green bonds as part of their global aggregate allocation

  • Key outsourcing fund loses appeal for German lifers as ZZR build-up stops

    12 November 2024

    Better interest rates mean fewer bond sales, with knock-on effect for Spezialfonds, says BVI