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  • Aviva Investors launches £37bn combined real assets business

    30 May 2018

    Integration of real estate, infrastructure and private debt businesses into single platform

  • Italian insurers heavily exposed as local government bond spreads blow out

    29 May 2018

    Worries as two-year Italian debt surges through 2% for the first time since 2013

  • Provinzial NordWest subsidiaries add third equities strategy

    29 May 2018

    SFCRs show divergent allocation tastes within group

  • Anbang says it has "no plans" to sell overseas assets

    29 May 2018

    Process of selecting new shareholders underway

  • Allianz becomes largest minority shareholder of Moneyfarm

    29 May 2018

    The online investment platform raised £40m in latest fund-raising round

  • European Commission to legislate ESG inclusion in insurers' investments

    25 May 2018

    Proposal part of first four legislative measures to boost sustainable finance in the region

  • Generali reaffirms credit facilities in €4bn deal

    25 May 2018

    Italian insurer cites ESG as a focus in the deal

  • Brazil becomes world’s first insurance market to commit to climate risk transparency

    24 May 2018

    Latin America’s largest insurance market declared support to the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.

  • World's top insurers stalling on climate change drive

    24 May 2018

    While insurers are increasingly acute to environmental risks which might impact both sides of their balance sheet, new research has found that their investment strategies are not in line with the Paris Agreement. The research was published the same week Royal Dutch Shell held its AGM and shareholders, including some large insurers, were asked to vote on a climate resolution. Did they stand up to the test? Paul Walsh and Vincent Huck report

  • Eiopa study shows variations in credit and market risk modelling

    23 May 2018

    Further investigations due into internal models’ treatment of asset risk