Archive

  • CIOs give praise, and criticism, to outsourcing managers over look-through

    08 September 2021

    Property and equity funds among those singled out by CIOs

  • FAANG, tech and old school

    23 August 2021

    Who cashed in on FAANG stocks?

  • Chart of the week: X-ray vision - the power of superheroes... and CIOs

    30 July 2021

    Without look-through, CIOs often don't invest in funds. One French insurer's SFCR shows why

  • French investors launch socially driven transition coalition

    30 June 2021

    Initiative by Finance for Tomorrow with members including Aviva France, AXA, CNP Assurances

  • Predica investment income down 4.8% in 2020

    15 April 2021

    Nearly three of quarters of France's largest life insurer invested in bonds

  • QBE becomes first Australian insurer to join net-zero alliance

    19 November 2020

    Joins same time as Danish pension fund and UK wealth manager

  • Chubb subsidiary reveals sensitivity of outsourcing in SFCR

    27 May 2020

    Pimco named as delegated provider of investment services

  • Shareholders brace for dividend cuts that gave them €25.5bn last year

    07 April 2020

    Europe's most generous payers mainly vow to honour stated payout plans

  • Legal & General partners with 14 housing associations

    20 November 2019

    It hopes to deliver 3,500 affordable homes a year

  • Insurance affiliates hold their own at top table of Europe's asset managers

    30 September 2019

    Many insurers’ affiliated managers have been sent out by their parents to gather third-party assets in recent years – with varying success. The managers might put their affiliation to an underwriting group forward as a credential to win more insurance mandates, but a European CIO questions whether this can be a universal truth. David Walker reports