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Axa IMRA boosts management team with senior hires

Axa Investment Managers — Real Assets (Axa IMRA) has strengthened its global management team with two senior appointments in the European and Asia-Pacific regions.

Mapfre buys 25% stake in ESG investment boutique

Eiopa leaves door open to lower risk charge for unlisted equities

Insurers struggling to prove lower volatility in strategic equities

Sompo Japan's hunt for yield takes it to US corporate debt

Sompo Japan Nipponkoa will increase its exposure to US corporate bonds in a bid to improve investment returns, which have been hamstrung by the persistently low yields on Japanese and other government bonds.

UK's interest rate rise: the reaction

Last week's interest rate hike by the Bank of England was highly anticipated, but the Bank's longer-term strategy has come under scrutiny in light of Brexit and rising inflation. Practitioners share their take on what UK insurers can expect. Asa Gibson reports

Axa IMRA buys £9m food retail property in East London

Location has 'high levels of footfall', says firm

BNP Paribas extends mandate with Italian bancassurance firm

Eurovita is an existing custody client of BNP Paribas

Growing interest from insurers in senior secured loans

New white paper from Invesco and Hymans Robertson

PRA to crack down on "undue capital relief" in Solvency II volatility adjustment

UK regulator concerned that VA is not being used for intended purpose

Net investment losses at MetLife fail to dim optimism after Brighthouse spin-off

US insurer MetLife posted net investment losses of $606m during the third quarter, sharply down on the gains of $231m it posted a year ago, as it battles on without its $220bn retail asset management business Brighthouse Financial.