News

• Mitsui Life plots dollar-to-euro shift as hedging costs mount

  21 April 2017

  Japanese insurers caught between a rock and a hard place with near-zero and negative domestic bonds

  

• Volkswohl Bund stems fall in yields with renewables and foreign investments

  21 April 2017

  German life firm accelerates level of stockpiling reserves for in-force policies

• Indonesia set to curb foreign insurers' investments in local industry

  21 April 2017

  Allianz, Aviva and Fairfax among investors that must keep shareholdings below 80%

  

• Axa IMRA acquires Amsterdam hotel in joint venture

  20 April 2017

  Hotel will be the largest in Benelux by number of rooms

  

• Bund yields vulnerable as QE draws to a close

  19 April 2017

  The end of the ECB's €2trn QE programme will lead to a rebalancing of the European fixed income market, with the repricing of German debt likely to be significant

  

• AMP Capital develops taste for passive management

  19 April 2017

  Affiliate's mandates for UBS Asset Management show not only pensions in Australia want low cost

• Japanese insurers target loan market

  19 April 2017

  Industry turns to financing projects as domestic bond yields remain near-zero

  

• M&G acquires ground lease to Edinburgh hotel

  18 April 2017

  City identified as the UK's top earning hotel location outside of London

  

• Fokoku's ¥500bn high yield fund play

  18 April 2017

  Insurer outlines plans to counter the bite of negative rates when unhedged foreign debt matures

  

• Axa IMRA buys German office on behalf of CNP Assurances

  13 April 2017

  Lack of new development in Hamburg location generating strong demand