News

  • PRA sticks to its guns on ERM deferment rates

    30 September 2019

    Parameters for effective value test left unchanged from consultation proposal

  • M&G Prudential buys UK rail freight firm

    27 September 2019

    GB Railfreight is fourth investment through Infracapital

  • BaFin reveals 12% investment turnover rate by insurers in 2018

    27 September 2019

    Regulator also ran tests using 1.2% reinvestment yield last year

  • Insurers vie with funds for control of PG&E

    27 September 2019

    The underwriters are owed $20bn from California wildfire, so aim to take over bankrupt utility

  • Minnesota Life in $30m Washington state investment deal

    27 September 2019

    Guaranteed investment contract to be managed by insurer affiliate, Securian

  • Germans boost infrastructure holdings by almost two-thirds in 2018

    26 September 2019

    Lack of domestic projects not keeping pace with appetite, says GDV

  • Moody's expects German life insurers to sell off more fixed income to feed cash reserves

    26 September 2019

    Offloading fixed income for ZZR cost 0.5% in returns last year, says Moody's

  • Hymans Robertson taps KPMG for life investment unit head

    25 September 2019

    New recruit Daniel Becker brings expertise in private assets

  • Pension funds and insurers commit to carbon-neutral investments by 2050

    25 September 2019

    The newly launched alliance is responsible for $2.4trn in investments

  • Sanlam UK buys Thesis Asset Management

    25 September 2019

    Deal takes Sanlam’s UK assets to £4.2bn