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Zurich pivoting to unit-linked
21 November 2022Group CIO Stephan van Vliet discusses the group's move into unit-linked, Guy Miller, chief market strategist, provides a market outlook and Danielle Brassel, responsible investment analyst, highlights progress on sustainability. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Exclusive: Zurich commits to 5% of portfolio in impact investing by 2025
03 November 2022And to increase the amount of unit-linked product invested in sustainability funds
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Zurich's Orion unit slices interest rate risk by moving into property fund
21 September 2022Ortec ALM study leads second Swiss insurer to buy property/mortgage funds, too
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Catalina Holdings CIO moves to Prudential
01 September 2022Don Guo completes the round of CIO musical chairs triggered by Zurich's CIO resignation last year
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Zurich has reported a 48% lower 1H net investment result
12 August 2022Net investment return on group investments fell to 0.9%
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Life stakeholders find reasons to sing and dance about back book deals
11 August 2022Those evaluating and otherwise benefitting from back book sales - including asset managers - tell David Walker they like what they see
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Pain relief - Sellers of life back books find their remedy
04 August 2022Life CIOs once yearned for back book sales to reduce their yield-pain. But might higher interest rates do the same job, David Walker asks
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Comment - On your marks, s-e-e-t, go (sell more life backbooks)!
19 July 2022Jefferies analyst Philip Kett fires starting gun in possible race to sell life backbooks
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Analysts welcome Axa's €661m German backbook deal
18 July 2022Axa Deutschland's SFCR reveals "complete overhaul" of life product range
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Axa IM wins outsourcing mandate from parent's €610m German life book deal
15 July 2022Deferred annuities and endowments had average guarantee of 3.2%