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Allianz's CIO talks: "I didn't come here to radically change things."
15 June 2018Like Germany's national football team, Allianz is one of the most well-structured and led companies in the world. Come the final shake-up you know it will be there or thereabouts. In a two-part series Allianz's CIO, Carsten Quitter, speaks to Insurance Asset Risk some three years after his predecessor Andres Gruber told of his challenges. By Sarfraz Thind
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LGIM poaches head of Asia-Pac from SLA
15 June 2018David Peng joins LGIM as head of Asia Pacific ex Japan
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L&G strikes loan and pensions de-risking deal with Heathrow Airport
15 June 2018The insurer will take £325m of pension liabilities and will lend £160m in bond
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Insurers give ECB bond decision qualified support
14 June 2018Industry holds €2.1tr in sovereigns
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Insurers’ investment income set to fall, despite rising rates
14 June 2018Expect another one to three years of declines, analysts at Bernstein predict
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More volatility to come, Aviva Investors CEO warns
13 June 2018Rising rates and quantitative easing slow down to cause sustained turbulence
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Axa IMRA buys €250m Paris care home portfolio
13 June 2018Healthcare assets exceed €1bn
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Impact investing or impact washing?
13 June 2018Insurers say they can find financial value in ESG investing, but they have to be wise to investments that don't deliver on their stated goals. And while ESG can mean different things to different stakeholders, a push for standardisation is not always welcome, according to panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's 2018 EMEA conference. Vincent Huck reports
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Emerging market debt investments attractive in the long run
12 June 201862% of surveyed investors said it is attractive to hold for more than five years
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LGIM announces exclusions from its £5bn Future World Funds
12 June 2018Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has named the companies it regards as leaders and laggards on climate change issues, as part of its attempt to remove climate-related risk from its £5 billion ($6.7 billion) Future World funds.