News

• Samsung Life acquires minority stake in Savills IM

  04 January 2022

  Priced at $86m and commit capital of $1bn over the initial term

• EEA insurers' direct property investments dropped in 2020 as uncertainty abounded

  03 January 2022

  Research by Insurance Asset Risk shows a 5% drop to €125.9bn

  

• Chart of the year - Global insurers' 'Covid exposures' and other measures

  31 December 2021

  In the wash-up from Covid, we reflect on how things were, one year on

• AIA president says renewables key to helping Mainland economy thrive

  30 December 2021

  Underwriters put HK$270bn in bonds annually, "but not because we are getting a particularly good yield and certainly not a good spread"

• French underwriters axed nearly €1bn of coal exposure in 2020

  29 December 2021

  Divestments happened at fastest rate since at least 2015

• AMP agrees M&A for infrastructure outsourcing partner

  29 December 2021

  Wurttembergische, R&V and Gothaer among debt-investing clients of AMP Capital

• French and their equities

  29 December 2021

  They love it, but in small proportions

  

• Allianz establishes Japanese residential property fund

  29 December 2021

  In partnership with Ivanhoé Cambridge, it plans to raise $750m in first close

• Comment - Enter the dragon? Will Hong Kong's CIOs be persuaded, or compelled, to invest in China?

  28 December 2021

  Hong Kong's insurers must meet claims/promises, but are being told they should support the Mainland's economy, too

• EEA's insurers' bond appetite revealed

  27 December 2021

  French CIOs love bonds, Northern Europeans prefer corporates and eastern Europeans like govvies