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• Exclusive: Zurich commits to 5% of portfolio in impact investing by 2025

  03 November 2022

  And to increase the amount of unit-linked product invested in sustainability funds

• Zurich's Orion unit slices interest rate risk by moving into property fund

  21 September 2022

  Ortec ALM study leads second Swiss insurer to buy property/mortgage funds, too

• Catalina Holdings CIO moves to Prudential

  01 September 2022

  Don Guo completes the round of CIO musical chairs triggered by Zurich's CIO resignation last year

• Zurich has reported a 48% lower 1H net investment result

  12 August 2022

  Net investment return on group investments fell to 0.9%

• Life stakeholders find reasons to sing and dance about back book deals

  11 August 2022

  Those evaluating and otherwise benefitting from back book sales - including asset managers - tell David Walker they like what they see

• Pain relief - Sellers of life back books find their remedy

  04 August 2022

  Life CIOs once yearned for back book sales to reduce their yield-pain. But might higher interest rates do the same job, David Walker asks

• Comment - On your marks, s-e-e-t, go (sell more life backbooks)!

  19 July 2022

  Jefferies analyst Philip Kett fires starting gun in possible race to sell life backbooks

• Analysts welcome Axa's €661m German backbook deal

  18 July 2022

  Axa Deutschland's SFCR reveals "complete overhaul" of life product range

• Axa IM wins outsourcing mandate from parent's €610m German life book deal

  15 July 2022

  Deferred annuities and endowments had average guarantee of 3.2%

• Jefferies urges AXA to sell German life back-book

  12 July 2022

  Bank praises Thomas Buberl for pivoting business model from asset risks