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Aviva tells affiliate manager to find more illiquid investments
08 March 2018Aviva has put finding more external business and more illiquid assets on this year's agenda for its affiliate manager, Aviva Investors.
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M&G Real Estate strikes €100m German office deal
08 March 2018M&G Real Estate, the real estate fund management arm of M&G Investments, has financed the construction of a €100m ($123m) office development in Dusseldorf, Germany.
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L&G to double investment in English cities regeneration to £200m
07 March 2018The English Cities Fund, a partnership between UK insurer Legal & General (L&G), Homes England and real estate developer Muse Developments, has agreed to double its investments in cities and towns in England to £200m ($278m).
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LGIM falls just shy of £1tn asset mark
07 March 2018Sees record third-party subscriptions for 2017
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Mapfre to invest €300m in offices across Europe
06 March 2018Madrid insurer, Mapfre, has partnered with real estate company GLL for a €300m ($372m) investment in office space in Europe.
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Helvetia favours fixed income, but sees outperformance in equity in 2017
06 March 2018Swiss insurer Helvetia invested mainly in European bonds, US credit and treasuries for its new investments last year as its portfolio returned CHF1.3bn, or 2.8% for 2017.
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Axa and XL set to create $750bn combined investment pot
05 March 2018But fate of which affiliate gets what, remains unclear
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German real estate fund liquidity remains high
02 March 2018The average liquidity ratio of 18 German open-ended retail real estate funds fell slightly to 21% in 2017 from 22.2% in 2016, a figured considered to be too high by Scope Analysis.
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German insurers call for better data and definitions to encourage ESG investing
02 March 2018German insurers are holding back from environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing because of a lack of uniform definitions and comparable data, their trade body says.
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China to test ALM reporting for one year
02 March 2018China's insurance regulator has released new regulations on asset-liability management (ALM) in its latest step to prevent asset-liability mismatch risks.