News

• French insurers cut allocation to financials’ debt

  08 January 2019

  Regulator reveals French insurers invested €2.5trn in the first half of 2018

• Axa IMRA spends ¥100bn on Japanese logistics assets

  08 January 2019

  Firm forms joint-venture with ESR and acquires five assets in Greater Tokyo and one in Greater Osaka

• Trend towards illiquids here to stay, BlackRock report finds

  08 January 2019

  Two-thirds of surveyed insurers are to increase allocations in real assets, with just under three quarters planning to increase private credit

• Munich Re creates CIO role

  07 January 2019

  On the back of the retirement of both its CFO and its asset manager’s CEO

• Deal round-up: Folksam Group, Nippon Life

  07 January 2019

  Folksam increase share in Volvo, and Nippon Life invests in South Australian windfarm

• UK firms transfer £800bn in assets to Europe ahead of Brexit

  07 January 2019

  According to EY in the UK, since the EU referendum, 20 companies, including six insurers, have announced a transfer of assets out of London to Europe

• M&G Real Estate buys Helsinki office building for €116m

  07 January 2019

  Finnish capital moves up to 10th spot in connectivity ranking as investment in Nordic region reaches €720m

• Californian insurers staking outsized bets on global warmers

  07 January 2019

  Research identifies concentrations in portfolios of state’s underwriters

• Legal & General Capital backs renewables fund

  04 January 2019

  Insurer’s investment affiliate will provide a fifth of the capital in NTR Renewable Income Fund II

• California COIN investments near $30bn, insurance commissioner calculates

  04 January 2019

  Dave Jones calls for tax credit, and data gathering, to be reinstated