Archive

• M&G Real Estate partnership targets private rented market

  29 June 2018

  To fund the construction of 114 private rental homes in South England

• Insurers and supervisors clash over equity investments

  28 June 2018

  During a panel discussion at Insurance Europe conference, the insurance industry and the supervisory authorities clashed over the level of equity investments. Industry representatives accused the European Commission and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority of ignoring market realities. Aggelos Andreou reports

• A slow growth for US infrastructure

  04 June 2018

  A US infrastructure overhaul is due—that much is common knowledge. However, so far, institutional investors and especially insurers have been coy to invest due to policy hurdles at the federal level. As each state administration starts to address these issues, insurers are seeing opportunities building up. David Turner reports

• Brazil becomes world’s first insurance market to commit to climate risk transparency

  24 May 2018

  Latin America’s largest insurance market declared support to the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.

• MetLife prioritises ESG over hedge funds

  11 May 2018

  MetLife's CIO Steve Goulart talks about the continued drive towards ESG investments as well as the company's plan to develop its third-party asset management business. By Paul Walsh and Sarfraz Thind

• Foresters Friendly ready to dump sterling assets to tackle Brexit

  09 May 2018

  Corrado Pistarino, chief investment officer at Foresters Friendly, outlines his firm's risk management strategy if things deteriorate with Brexit and what asset managers need to do in order to win mandates from insurance clients. By Cintia Cheong

• Allianz lends €300m for Apple store acquisition

  27 April 2018

  German insurer Allianz has provided €300m ($362m) to German pension fund Bayerische Versorgung-skammer (BVK) to support the acquisition of a retail asset in Paris, sold by EPI, a French independent investment group.

• M&G launches private debt impact fund

  17 April 2018

  M&G Investments has launched a fund focusing on private and illiquid debt that will deliver a positive social or environmental impact.

• PGIM Real Estate promotes executive director to head of European investment research

  27 March 2018

  PGIM Real Estate, the real estate business of Prudential Financial's investment unit, has named its current executive director Greg Kane as head of European investment research.

• Everest Re partners with Hudson Structured on investment opportunities

  20 March 2018

  Bermuda-based reinsurer Everest Re and investment adviser Hudson Structured Capital Management (HSCM) have agreed a strategic partnership which will see the pair working together on investment opportunities.