News

  • Tariff turmoil challenges insurers and managers

    12 February 2025
  • PIC's CEO, Tracy Blackwell, to step down

    12 February 2025
  • Standard Life completes £250m BPA deal with Finning Pension Scheme

    12 February 2025
  • L&G NTR clean power fund acquires Irish solar and battery project

    12 February 2025
  • Chinese regulator launches gold investment pilot programme for 10 insurers

    12 February 2025
  • Poor performance in Q4 2024 bucked trend for US institutional investors' returns, Northern Trust says

    12 February 2025
  • Daido Life Insurance makes investment in getting Japan's SMEs to net zero

    12 February 2025
  • Meiji Yasuda Life joins list of insurers backing early-stage AI developer Sakana

    12 February 2025
  • US insurers' investment conviction wanes in 2025, Conning risk survey finds

    11 February 2025
  • L&G completes £370m buy-in with TUI Group UK Pension Trust

    11 February 2025
  • Tweak Solvency II to make it easier to invest outside OECD, says Banque de France

    11 February 2025
  • MEAG appoints new head of institutional clients from Allianz GI

    11 February 2025
  • APAC Weekly - Japan's lifers discover new life business overseas

    11 February 2025
  • Just Group completes five buy-ins through Beacon

    10 February 2025
  • BlueOrchard fund reaches $100m target

    10 February 2025
  • Manulife Asia appoints new CFO

    10 February 2025
  • Nippon Life joins TISFD

    10 February 2025
  • Meiji Yasuda Life takes 20% stake in L&G's US PRT business

    07 February 2025
  • SLAM France acquires office project in Lille

    07 February 2025
  • Abeille Assurances and Allianz France invest in Mirova sustainable land fund

    07 February 2025
  • Generali's Infranity backs Icelandic data centre business

    07 February 2025
  • Chart of the Week - In Generali's and BPCE's JV, 'affiliated AM giants' roar to life

    07 February 2025
  • M&G acquires majority stake in European private credit business

    06 February 2025
  • Schroders Greencoat launches new €220m green investment fund

    06 February 2025

Focus on Asia Pacific

  • Chinese regulator launches gold investment pilot programme for 10 insurers

  • Daido Life Insurance makes investment in getting Japan's SMEs to net zero

  • Meiji Yasuda Life joins list of insurers backing early-stage AI developer Sakana

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's lifers discover new life business overseas

  • BlueOrchard fund reaches $100m target

  • Manulife Asia appoints new CFO

  • Nippon Life joins TISFD

  • Dai-ichi Life backs Tokyo with purchase of transition government bonds

  • Meiji Yasuda Life's future co-creation fund invests in local digital start-up, MOSH

  • Sumitomo Life outsources local PE investing to emerging management house

  • APAC Weekly - India opens GA-floodgates for local investments, or maybe not...

  • "Phenomenal" change predicted in insurance investments from Indian budget

Outsourcing

  • PGIM to manage assets for Dai-ichi Life subsidiaries

  • Scottish Widows signs RI partnership with Robeco

  • Generali and BPCE announce world's largest insurance asset management platform

  • Sumitomo Life outsources for local PE/buyout exposure growth

People

  • PIC's CEO, Tracy Blackwell, to step down

  • MEAG appoints new head of institutional clients from Allianz GI

  • Aviva Investors appoints Franklin Templeton veteran as Canadian CEO

  • AllianzGI to split public markets and private markets investment roles

Regulation

  • Insurers now taking a more blended approach to public and private investing, Barings says

  • Tweak Solvency II to make it easier to invest outside OECD, says Banque de France

  • Will the NAIC's new regulations change insurer's attitudes to private credit investments?

  • UK insurers will struggle to meet government's investment hopes for UK PLC, CreditSights says

Systems/Data

  • Axa IM hails blockchain trials a success

  • Mapfre AM to unify investment process for public and private assets

  • Til tech do us part - are AI investments a love story for the ages?

  • Winners of the 2024 Insurance Asset Risk North America awards