Archive

  • UK life insurers to disclose engagement policy under new rules

    30 January 2019

    FCA launches consultation to improve shareholder engagement

  • Wells Fargo Asset Management sets up shop in Paris and Frankfurt

    03 January 2019

    It also expands Luxembourg licence to counter ‘prevailing uncertainty’ around Brexit

  • QBE Insurance moves assets to Brussels in post-Brexit plan

    02 January 2019

    Australian insurer moves more than $1bn of assets to Belgian subsidiary QBE Europe

  • Pessimists outnumber optimists in Schroders survey

    30 November 2018

    Four out of ten insurers expect yearly investment returns of less than 5% in next five years

  • NN weighs possible Brexit scenarios

    25 October 2018

    No-deal would ‘shock’, hard exit would ‘weaken’, soft would have ‘limited’ impact

  • Aviva gets real on illiquid assets

    16 October 2018

    Five months into Aviva Investors’ strategy to merge its real assets teams under one leadership, Mark Versey and Iain Forrester discuss the new strategy and how it fits with the firm’s approach to servicing third-party insurers. By Vincent Huck

  • UK investors buy up corporate bonds as they shun UK and Euro equities

    08 October 2018

    Additional £12m invested in corporate bonds, but Brexit worry looms large as equities experience outflows

  • A.M. Best on course to open Amsterdam office

    10 September 2018

    Office to be headed by former JLT Re head of analytics for Asia

  • UK Investment Association goes European

    05 September 2018

    Johannes Woelfing appointed to the newly created position of Head of European Affairs

  • South Koreans’ UK real estate investment doubles in H1

    20 August 2018

    £899m invested by insurance related asset managers, thanks to rule change