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Folksam expands real estate portfolio and eyes further growth

A look back and forward

The current year was relatively benign for the insurance investment industry. But 2018 holds new challenges. What risks and what opportunities should investors be looking at in the coming year? Sarfraz Thind reports

Axa IMRA spends €23m on Italian retail property

Axa Investment Managers - Real Assets (Axa IMRA) has acquired a high street retail asset located in the heart of Turin, Italy, for €23m ($27m)

Circ shames five insurance asset managers with inadequate reporting

The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (Circ) has identified five asset managers that have failed to file adequate reporting

Conning to acquire major stake in emerging and frontier market specialist

Investment management firm Conning is to acquire a 45% stake in Global Evolution, a fellow investment manager focusing on emerging and frontier market debt strategies.

L&G co-leads Series A funding of UK energy start-up

Legal & General Capital, the principal investment arm of Legal & General Group, has co-led the Series A investment in UK start-up Upside Energy.

EU asset managers can obtain 'temporary permissions' to operate in UK after Brexit

UK wants to avoid sudden disruption if hard Brexit takes place

Axa IMRA acquires €170m Spanish residential portfolio

L&G invests in 515 homes in UK's Oxfordshire

Plans to build 80,000 more homes in the next five to 10 years

Look-through essential in SFCRs, says BaFin

German regulator also spells out rules for comparative figures in year two of pillar 3