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News round-up - 05 March 2021

Dai-Ichi Life; Allianz Real Estate; Beazley

Beazley CEO moving to QBE

Beazley net investment income down 29%

Small gains made in fixed income securities offset by equity market drops

WR Berkley expects "drought, and moments when it's raining money" from alternatives

Arbitrage trading and alternatives pay off for the US insurer in Q4

Pimco, Microsoft and four financial service companies join in tech venture

Aim to create cloud-based operating platform for asset managers

WR Berkley reaps $105m gain from New York office block sale

Re/insurer lists out outsourced alternative investments after vowing to stick with non-mainstream allocations

US insurers timidly assessing climate risk

From increasingly fierce wildfires in California to recurring hurricane hits to the country's southern and eastern seaboards, US insurers are only too familiar with some intensifying effects of climate change, but are they doing anything about it? David Walker takes the temperature.

43% of global re/insurance assets covered by divestment policies

Insure Our Future publishes annual scorecard on insurers' climate policies

VIG set to add more than €500m to general account after regional M&A

M&A involved assets as well as liabilities for Austrian insurer

Axa IMRA acquires four Spanish student accommodations

Alongside Greystar Real Estate and CBRE Global Investors