Archive

  • Institutional outflows dampen Standard Life's half-year results

    08 August 2017

    Investors are cautious ahead of the insurer's merger with Aberdeen Asset Management

  • Pimco seals turnaround with record inflows

    07 August 2017

    Single €19bn mandate for world's biggest fixed income manager helps Allianz post record third-party inflows

  • Insurers shamed in ongoing criticism of coal industry investments

    04 August 2017

    Munich Re, Swiss Re, Allianz, Generali and Zurich's exposure to coal exposed

  • Allianz Capital Partners takes €600m stake in Spanish Gas distributor

    04 August 2017

    Investment is part of a €1.5bn investment with Canadian pension fund for a 20% stake in Spain's largest gas distribution network

  • Generali Investments appoints Chaigneau as head of research

    04 August 2017

    Responsible for providing credit, equity, macro and market research to assist group investments

  • CIRC refutes claims it ordered Anbang to sell off foreign assets

    04 August 2017

    Regulator denies media reports after insurer dismissed rumours

  • L&G spots opportunity in UK's retirement housing sector

    04 August 2017

    Market presents 'one of the largest real asset opportunities in the country'

  • PGIM Real Estate buys fully-let German office building

    03 August 2017

    New leasing agreement makes the property appealing to institutional investors

  • End of the road for ground rents?

    03 August 2017

    Ground rents were talked up as a great diversifier for insurers, with stable and very long term cashflows, but the UK government's consultation paper and media scrutiny in the past week may be a death knell for the asset class. Asa Gibson reports

  • Beijing to tighten foreign investment controls at state-owned insurers

    03 August 2017

    Authorities concerned by "irrational" foreign investments stemming from lack of accountability