News

  • Selling investments pushes German life firms into safe territory...just

    24 August 2018

    More than one in every five euros of return comes from selling assets

  • Munich Re and Guggenheim deal talks fall flat

    24 August 2018

    German insurer was to buy stake in asset manager or US financial conglomerate

  • LGIM pressures international standards body to adopt TCFD

    23 August 2018

    Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has thrown its weight behind calls for the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) to adopt harmonised climate risk reporting.

  • Investments boost South Korean insurers H1 results

    23 August 2018

    Increased gains led to a 11.7% increase in income investments

  • Chinese insurers’ AuM grew 11.4% in 2017

    23 August 2018

    Exposure to bonds grew by 20%

  • Risk management and optimizing investment strategies

    23 August 2018

    Insurers want more alternative assets but struggle to evaluate the optimum risk/return portfolio

  • Barings enhances presence in Asia with two new appointments

    23 August 2018

    Duncan Robertson and Shelley Liu to oversee Asia operations

  • Allianz doubly affected by Italian bridge collapse

    22 August 2018

    Investment formed part of Allianz’s infrastructure push

  • Real estate bonds attractive but not risk-free, Austrian regulator warns

    22 August 2018

    189 real estate bonds have been issued on the Austrian capital market in Q1 2018

  • ASI launches global equity AI fund

    22 August 2018

    Machine learning component will identify sources of potential returns