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St James's Place surrenders ticked up in 2024, but FuM hit record high
03 February 2025Wealth manager cut alternatives, grew North American shareholdings, last year
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Chart of the Week - IVASS spells out the lay of the land in lifers' GAs, as lapse risk came to Italy
31 January 2025Researchers at the regulator analysed portfolio positioning and likely gains/losses to meet surrenders, in 2023
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Fed passes (first) Trump 2.0 independence test
30 January 2025As economists predict "frosty" relations with White House
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Lapse rates generally decreased among life insurers with better solvency in 2023
30 January 2025Insurance Risk Data found this trend, with a few exceptions, using solvency data
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WR Berkley posts record $1.3bn annual net investment income
28 January 2025CFO Richard Baio flags better to come as reinvestment rate tops book yield
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Italians regard life policies as investment products more than for demographic risk
27 January 2025IVASS published research on reasons behind policy lapses in 2023
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Fed to hold rates and ECB to cut next week, AllianzGI says
24 January 2025And favours curve steepeners in both the US and Germany
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Chart of the Week: Trump 2.0 - will he? Won't he?
24 January 2025To paraphrase Robert Frost, Trump has promises to keep and miles to go before he sleeps
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UK insurers will struggle to meet government's investment hopes for UK PLC, CreditSights says
23 January 2025In addition to risk of becoming a proxy for investors to short UK sovereigns
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AXA IM Alts' real estate debt platform raises €4bn and deploys €3bn
23 January 2025Over 12-month period
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Private credit, insurance now make up over half Blackstone, Apollo, KKR and Carlyle portfolio, says Moody's
22 January 2025A decade ago, these classes were just one-third of those alternative managers' businesses
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Apcia calls for cat bond issue, to "recapitalise and stabilise" FAIR Plan
22 January 2025California's lawmakers introduced legislation on 9 January to let FAIR Plan use bond issue proceeds
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Lloyd's London Bridge investment platform reaches $1.92bn deployed
21 January 2025With $2.55bn committed from institutional investors
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APAC Weekly - APAC's public natcat reinsurers watch California (tie itself in knots)
21 January 2025State's lawmakers may have shot their state in the foot with well-meaning rules to shore up insurance
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Markets may have over-estimated Trump growth and inflation impact, RLAM says
20 January 2025As firm braces for bond market volatility in 2025
- Nuveen hires new global head of institutional
- New York Life promotes new head of $68bn real estate arm
- Folksam sets portfolio net zero targets for 2030
- L&G acquires PBSA scheme in Edinburgh for £35m
- Chart of the Week - IVASS spells out the lay of the land in lifers' GAs, as lapse risk came to Italy
- Lapse rates generally decreased among life insurers with better solvency in 2023
- L&G forms EV charging partnership with Osprey Charging
- Fed passes (first) Trump 2.0 independence test
- Phoenix Group to merge AM and retirement divisions under CIO Mike Eakins
- Second Mirova fund joins TIBI