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Regulator reveals Belgian insurers' links to shadow banking

Belgium's financial regulator and national bank have calculated an exposure by insurers to shadow banks of €47bn ($55bn), representing one-third of the assets in the nation's parallel banking system.

RLAM launches £2.7bn UK property fund

Two-thirds of properties invested in London

JPMAM bolsters insurance team with three appointments

Folksam CIO: "There is simply no reason not to continue investing in green bonds"

Michael Kjeller, chief investment officer of Swedish pensions and insurance provider Folksam, discusses his firm's decision to raise its target for green bond investment

Aberdeen Standard invests in Dutch gas infrastructure

Allianz makes first logistics investment in Japan

The $100m allocation complements recent European commercial property loan

Allianz sells Korean investment business to Anbang

Insurers target improved ALM and private assets to enhance investment profits

Blackrock's 2017 Global Insurance Survey reveals some telling figures regarding insurers' attitudes towards the role of the investment function, and how they plan to manipulate their activities to improve profitability. Asa Gibson reports

L&G invests £120m in high speed rail

Allianz Real Estate forms Western Europe team with leadership shuffle

Alexander Gebauer to lead region's activities in Paris office

Japanese insurer eyes stake in US asset manager

Aviva Investors poaches former SLI director for multi-asset fund

Generali Investments shuffles leadership with two senior hires as unit seeks external mandates

New tools for understanding the impact of investment decisions on capital

Insurers are under increasing pressure to manage the sensitivity of solvency ratios to their asset mix, but even sophisticated internal models may not be up to this task. Steven Morrison describes an alternative approach using proxy modelling

State Street offers machine learning to interpret investment research

Manulife Asset Management grows institutional assets by 15%

Manulife eyes 'fast-growing' Philippines market with three fund launches

Three retail fund launches reflect the "rapid growth" of the middle-class population

French insurer to double green investments

Green bonds will be the focus for BNP Paribas Cardif

Rumours surface of Axa's search for Axa IM partner

Reports suggest the insurer has opened talks with French asset managers about mergers

Appetite for alternatives brings credit risk concerns for China's insurers

Moody's warns small and medium-sized insurers are most at risk, as regulatory and economic factors encourage less familiar investments