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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

French insurer to double green investments

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

Rumours surface of Axa’s search for Axa IM partner

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

PIC buys £60m social housing bonds

Lower infra corporates capital charge ineffective without trusted pipeline

Axa in JV to acquire Spanish student accommodation portfolio

Filipino regulator eases real estate investment rules for non-life insurers

Aberdeen Standard Investments seeks healthy returns with Harley Street acquisition

Allianz clues in on Baker Street deal

Direct lending - an attractive source of long-term return

An allocation into direct lending can provide insurers a diversified source of higher, less volatile returns over a longer-term time horizon

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Size does matter when evaluating core fixed income returns

Scott Skowronski explores how core fixed income strategies are far from a commoditised space, and how the size of the asset manager has an influence on returns

Q&A: Why Swiss Re chose ESG benchmarks

The group's chief investment officer, Guido Fürer, explains why he feels that adopting the ESG benchmarks has been the most meaningful and strategic step in its journey to integrate ESG considerations

The calm before the storm: 'Investors should be worried'

Some investors and analysts have been surprised by the calmness of financial markets at a time of political and economic uncertainty. Sarfraz Thind talks to seven senior investment professionals working with insurance assets about their prognosis for the future.

Between a rock and a hard place: Japan's life insurers must invest wisely

With negative-yielding domestic bonds, a back book with high return guarantees and a prudential solvency regulation on the horizon, Japanese life insurers are caught between a rock and a hard place. David Turner reports.