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• AllianceBernstein head of responsible US equities joins SASB advisory board

  18 July 2019

  Valerie Grant is one of three AB execs to advise on sustainability accounting standards

• Hong Kong’s insurers gearing up for risk-based capital

  31 May 2019

  In Hong Kong, local stakeholders tell Vincent Huck how they are getting ready for a risk-based capital regime which will require them to put in place ALM strategies and define their investment risk appetite.

• AllianceBernstein launches two SDG funds

  20 May 2019

  Insurance clients particularly interested in Sustainable Global Thematic Credit Portfolio fund

• Asset risk: biggest risk for Asian insurers

  02 May 2019

  With a lack of domestic long dated assets to match their long-term liabilities and some restrictions on overseas investments, Asian insurers’ biggest risk exposure comes from their investments. In Hong Kong, Vincent Huck meets with regional and local stakeholders to understand how they are coping and their expectations for the upcoming changes in regulations.

• Investors’ engagement results in Equinor’s climate change commitments

  25 April 2019

  Storebrand’s asset management unit part of investor group leading engagement process

• Is it really a small world after all? Protectionism strikes back

  21 March 2019

  Most insurers’ chief investment officers and asset managers have grown up investing during the long trend of beneficial globalisation. The trend was their friend. But as evidence of its unravelling builds, they are asking if the elastic is just stretching or about to snap back. Vincent Huck went in search of answers

• AllianceBernstein to buy Autonomous Research

  20 November 2018

  Axa-owned asset manager moves to improve research offering with fintech acquisition

• AllianceBernstein AuM falls by $20bn in October

  13 November 2018

  The 3.6% decline was attributed to market depreciation

• AllianceBernstein closes third US commercial real estate fund

  21 August 2018

  With $3.1bn capital committed, including from global insurers

• Tips for insurers and asset managers in 2018

  29 December 2017

  In the second part of this 2018 investment outlook, stakeholders share their views on the negotiating rising rates, inflation and what asset managers should be doing to help insurers. Sarfraz Thind reports