News

• Swiss Life takes IFRS hit on equity hedges

  10 May 2017

  Increased exposure to equity, did not realise gains to offset hedge impact

  

• IPO will bring life insurance and asset management closer together, says Axa chief

  10 May 2017

  Axa to float US business, including stake in manager AB – under new leadership, following loss of large institutional mandate

  

• Mapfre subscribes to UN's Responsible Investment Principles

  09 May 2017

  List of insurance signatories grows as pressure mounts on industry to invest responsibly

  

• Munich Re harvests gains to feed ZZR

  09 May 2017

  "Unusually high" gain realisation results in "inflated RoI of 3.6%"

  

• 'Regulatory framework is imperfect', says Chinese regulator

  08 May 2017

  Circ vows to crackdown on system loopholes, including fund allocations

  

• Berkshire's 'huge appetite' for wind and solar assets

  08 May 2017

  Tycoon Warren Buffett says no particular bias against solar, but expects to invest seven times more in wind by 2020

  

• Allianz refuses to expand coal exclusion policy to investment business

  05 May 2017

  Insurer divested €225m from coal companies and shed €1bn in bonds in the coal sector

• Anbang's short-term funding products banned by regulator

  05 May 2017

  Circ concerned premiums will be used to invest in risky or long-term assets

• Emerging market debt and equities lift Argo's returns

  05 May 2017

  Alternatives shine 12 months after firm posts loss on investment

  

• Axa IMRA strengthens infrastructure equity team

  04 May 2017

  Jeffrey Woodard follows Mark Gilligan from UBS Asset Management