Archive

  • BlackRock takes top prize in insurance mandates, Insurance Risk Data reveals

    11 September 2019

    BlackRock, Neam, Conning and Goldman Sachs are underwriters’ ‘favourites’ by the number of mandates awarded

  • Crédit Agricole Assurances acquires Parisian offices

    26 July 2019

    Amundi Real Estate appointed asset manager

  • Axa Investment Managers appoints global head of fixed income

    28 June 2019

    Christope Herpet takes over from Gilles Dauphiné who joins Amundi

  • Factor investing: what are the facts?

    23 April 2019

    While there has been a lot of hype around factor investing in the last decade, the jury is still out as to whether these types of strategies are of interest for insurers. David Turner looks at the state of play

  • Lloyd's syndicates $100m outsourcing treasure

    18 April 2019

    In the second part of our two-part series on Lloyd's syndicates and their investments, David Walker analyses their portfolio allocations and performance, uncovering a treasure most asset managers would want a map to.

  • Generali launches new Italian boutique asset manager

    17 April 2019

    Italian insurer to invest €1bn into ThreeSixty Investments’ first fund, launched in partnership with former CEO of Pioneer Investments

  • Lloyd's syndicates open up about investment outsourcing

    11 April 2019

    Research by Insurance Risk Data reveals the 2018 winners and losers of the mandated asset managers for Lloyd's syndicates. David Walker reports on who won which mandates, who received applause and who wasn't that lucky.

  • Crédit Agricole Assurances – a quiet strength

    24 January 2019

    Jean-Jacques Duchamp, deputy chief executive officer of Crédit Agricole Assurances, discusses the group’s asset allocation strategy and why coal is not off its agenda yet. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • External and inhouse challenges facing investors and managers alike

    20 December 2018

    During a two-day conference held by the CFA Institute, European investors discussed the geopolitical risks they face, divergences between asset owners and asset managers, and the rise of sustainability in the investment processes. Vincent Huck reports

  • European insurers’ outsourcing starts at home, Insurance Risk Data reveals

    02 November 2018

    But independents also win mandates, especially in UK market