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  • Between a rock and a hard place: Japan's life insurers must invest wisely

    30 August 2017

    With negative-yielding domestic bonds, a back book with high return guarantees and a prudential solvency regulation on the horizon, Japanese life insurers are caught between a rock and a hard place. David Turner reports.

  • ASR re-risks investment portfolio

    30 August 2017

    Dutch insurer piles into US debt and mortgages

  • Baloise softens blow of low rates with US dollar real assets

    30 August 2017

    Move away from Swiss bonds provides net return of 1.4% on insurance investments

  • SLI insurance director joins Aviva Investors

    30 August 2017

    Iain Forrester appointed head of insurance investment strategy, global investment solutions

  • Allianz GI poaches investment strategist from MetLife

    29 August 2017

    Mona Mahajan hired to communicate the group's "house view"

  • Poor investment climate and crackdown on unorthodox products lead to Anbang downgrade

    25 August 2017

    Rating agency Dagong also highlights problematic debt burden of foreign loan investments under domestic guarantee

  • China Life partners with Baidu in $1bn tech fund

    24 August 2017

    Fund to focus on companies with strong association with China after regulatory clampdown

  • Munich Re acquires stake in US wind portfolio

    24 August 2017

    German re/insurance group's internal asset management business MEAG advised the deal

  • Low rates push Uniqa's investment income lower

    23 August 2017

    Net income down 7.5% year on year to €233m, but fall slowing compared to 2016

  • Storebrand grows commercial property exposure with Swedish retail portfolio

    23 August 2017

    Insurer pays about $198m for portfolio with "developmental potential"