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ICBC-Axa gets green light to set up Chinese asset manager

First Sino-foreign joint venture to be granted approval to set up asset management arm

Standard Life Aberdeen challenges Lloyds’ decision to axe Scottish Widows portfolio

SLA seeking to hold onto £109bn portfolio

Axa hedges equity risk with derivatives purchase

Boosts solvency ratio by 8 percentage points

Aviva Investors to sell its £5bn indirect real estate business

Fund manager believed to be closing in on a deal with LaSalle Investment Management

Allianz to stop investing in coal completely by 2040

German insurer Allianz has announced it will phase out investments in the coal sector completely by 2040.

Sustainable assets do not equal low-risk, warns German regulator

BaFin cautions against ESA review creating “bureaucratic monster”

LV=’s CIO on adapting to Solvency II

LV=’s CIO Mark Laidlaw gives an insight into how the business has been impacted by Solvency II’s dictates on asset and liability management and moulded its choice of asset manager. By Paul Walsh and Sarfraz Thind

MetLife targets Asia-Pacific with sales hire

Lancashire investment portfolio slips to loss in Q1

Volatile equity markets and US rate increase dent total investment return

Greenlight Re posts near worst $145m investment loss

Greenlight Capital Re, the hedge fund reinsurer based in Bermuda, reported a net loss of $142.8m for the first quarter of 2018, compared to a gain of $8.4m for the same period in 2017.