Archive

  • "Insurers remain vulnerable to 'double-hit' scenario"

    01 June 2015

    QE adds to the pressure, says Eiopa

  • M&G Real Estate pays €52m for German retail park

    29 May 2015

    ECB's QE supports investment strategy, says Prudential unit

  • US P/C insurers register investment income falls in 2014

    28 May 2015

    Both returns and capital gains hit, say ISO and PCI

  • Sale of Tussauds to Taiwan insurer confirmed

    26 May 2015

    Fubon Life pays £332.5m

  • Insurers should be nimble and flexible in fixed income

    26 May 2015

    After decades of a bond bull market and six years of central bank liquidity measures, is the fixed-income bubble bursting? Prashant Sharma examines what this would mean for insurers' portfolios, historically heavily weighted towards this asset class?

  • Axa to move out of coal-related investments

    26 May 2015

    CEO also criticises regulation for deterring long-term investment

  • Yie-Hsin Hung becomes CEO of NYLIM

    22 May 2015

    Reports to new head of investments group

  • Amlin investment return more than halves

    22 May 2015

    But "highly creditable against a challenging economic background"

  • New York Life CIO becomes president

    21 May 2015

    Will continue to head investments

  • German insurers face crunch on guaranteed products

    20 May 2015

    German insurers are struggling to meet guaranteed rates on life insurance products when returns on traditional investment assets are so paltry. How big a drain on capital is the mismatch producing and what's being done to ease this? Sarfraz Thind explains