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BlackRock takes top prize in insurance mandates, Insurance Risk Data reveals
11 September 2019BlackRock, Neam, Conning and Goldman Sachs are underwriters’ ‘favourites’ by the number of mandates awarded
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Crédit Agricole Assurances acquires Parisian offices
26 July 2019Amundi Real Estate appointed asset manager
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Crédit Agricole Assurances takes 35% stake in real estate company
17 May 2019The company will develop nursing homes across France
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Is it really a small world after all? Protectionism strikes back
21 March 2019Most 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
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French insurers partner up for major unlisted SME funding initiative
07 March 2019From Axa France to BNP Paribas Cardif and CNP Assurances, France’s largest have helped unlock €22.2bn of fund-based investments for French small caps. Their early-stage returns may be unclear. But their ambitions for the next phase of their investment is only the greater, the heavy hitters tell Vincent Huck
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French insurers committed €1.2bn in partnership to fund unlisted SMEs
13 February 2019The five insurers and an investment bank invested in 63 funds
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Crédit Agricole Assurances – a quiet strength
24 January 2019Jean-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
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Crédit Agricole Assurances purchases minority stake in Italian bank
25 July 2018Insurer aims to grow its shareholding to 5% as part of an exclusive partnership with CreVal in the life insurance business
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AXA IMRA and CA Assurances acquire share in French natural gas terminal
03 July 2018Both firms acquire 15.19% and back Fluxys to become majority shareholder
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MetLife buys €100m green bonds
04 April 2018MetLife Investment Management, the asset management arm of US insurer MetLife, has purchased €100m ($123m) of green bonds from WDP, a real estate investment company based in Belgium.