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Transition to alternatives helps cut UK annuity pricing
26 April 2017Insurers no longer reliant on corporate bond spreads
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Diversified Growth Funds - manna or mania?
07 April 2017Diversified growth funds promise equity-like returns with fixed income-type capital charges. It certainly looks an interesting proposition for insurers in the current low yield world. But how well do the promises stack up? Sarfraz Thind reports
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Is the relationship between insurer and asset manager facing disruption?
01 March 2017The relationship between asset manager and insurer could be entering a new era, as WTW attempts to bring investors and managers into a single marketplace via its Asset Management Exchange. Asa Gibson talks to the man hoping to create the Amazon of investment, Oliver Jaegemann.
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The 2017 investment agenda
30 December 2016With 2016 drawing to a close, investors on behalf of insurers can look back on what was a particularly challenging year. They will be keen to steady the ship and step up investment performance in 2017. Asa Gibson reports
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Fast-growing RPC Consulting continues hiring spree
12 December 2016Sam Worthington joins from WTW
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Industry turns up the heat on MA reform
05 December 2016The industry's opportunity to recommend changes to EU regulation in a post-Brexit world has delivered a comprehensive criticism of the MA. David Walker and Asa Gibson report.
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UK firms expanding MA portfolios
19 September 2016More firms holding covered bonds, infrastructure, mortgages and ABS in MA
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Willis Towers Watson expands investment team with two hires
19 September 2016Appointments follow previous hires to meet increasing demand for investment services
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One-third of UK insurers 'would have been better off investing in cash'
30 August 2016Willis Towers Watson study finds 2015 investment returns below average six-month LIBOR return
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Insurers shift alternative allocations
13 July 2016Investments in direct infrastructure, direct PE and illiquid credit rise in 2015