News

  • COTW: Nippon Life aims to address Japanese 'ESG paradox'

    18 April 2025
  • Fitch predicts third £40bn+ year for UK BPA market

    17 April 2025
  • PartnerRe life and health business joins ABI

    17 April 2025
  • Canada Life Reinsurance appoints new CIO

    17 April 2025
  • New York Life and MIM invest in recreational fintech business

    16 April 2025
  • M&G Investments appoints M&G (Lux) Nature and Biodiversity Solutions fund manager

    16 April 2025
  • PGIM Real Estate appoints deputy head of Asia Pacific

    16 April 2025
  • Aviva Investors backs tech-focused VC firm

    16 April 2025
  • Schroders takes £2.1bn management mandate for Scottish Friendly

    15 April 2025
  • SLAM acquires majority stake in European aerial emergency services firm

    15 April 2025
  • Sumitomo Life ups FY2025 ESG thematic investment target to JPY 1trn

    15 April 2025
  • Axa IM Alts completes €300m sale of Spanish real estate portfolio

    15 April 2025
  • MIM reaches $660m close on private equity fund

    15 April 2025

Focus on Asia Pacific

  • COTW: Nippon Life aims to address Japanese 'ESG paradox'

  • PGIM Real Estate appoints deputy head of Asia Pacific

  • Sumitomo Life ups FY2025 ESG thematic investment target to JPY 1trn

  • APAC Weekly - Would you panic-buy rice?

  • Manulife IM makes first direct property purchase in Australia

  • Treasury yield spikes may reflect investors' economic downturn fears, AllianzGI says

  • Zurich Australia appoints new CIO

  • Manulife IM and Aberdeen spell out China's options after Trump's steep tariffs

  • Comment - A good time for insurers to divest Japanese cross-shareholdings?

  • Comment: China's regulator picks one helluva day, to promote Chinese insurers' shareholdings

  • APAC Weekly - 'How to Spend It': Japan's authorities allocate most 'green bond' proceeds to climate adaptation

  • Chinese regulator raises insurers' equity ratio limits and VC fund ceilings

Outsourcing

  • Schroders takes £2.1bn management mandate for Scottish Friendly

  • SLAM acquires majority stake in European aerial emergency services firm

  • Guardian Life forms investment partnership with Janus Henderson

  • SLAM takes £120m new account mandate for UK education charity

People

  • Canada Life Reinsurance appoints new CIO

  • M&G Investments appoints M&G (Lux) Nature and Biodiversity Solutions fund manager

  • Axa IM appoints new portfolio manager to focus on US equity

  • AllianzGI shakes up CIO team

Regulation

  • Fitch predicts third £40bn+ year for UK BPA market

  • PartnerRe life and health business joins ABI

  • Japanese lifers looking for a beacon in the equity markets storm

  • Just Group sticking with fixed cashflow assets in MA portfolios, SFCR says

Systems/Data

  • Winners of the 2025 Insurance Asset Risk EMEA awards

  • 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?