Archive

  • PIC grows exposure to UK social housing

    27 July 2017

    Announces £60m deal split into three tranches to match its liabilities

  • Insurers pile into French fintech fund

    26 July 2017

    Swiss Life, Groupama, SocGen, Natixis and Vaudoise commit to new fund targeting insurtech and regtech

  • Insurance supervisors support climate risk disclosure guidance

    26 July 2017

    Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures proposes voluntary disclosure of climate risks for insurers

  • 'You never asked!' – asset managers respond to look-through data criticism

    25 July 2017

    Practitioners in the asset management sector have hit back against the notion that they failed to deliver on asset reporting data

  • Price bubble warning for European prime real estate

    25 July 2017

    Investors urged to seek non-prime assets as insurer and retail fund interest pushes prices up

  • BNY Mellon subsidiary wins business from Canada's Desjardins

    24 July 2017

    Take-up of fund accounting solution by Eagle unit extends partnership beyond Desjardins Asset Management

  • Axa IMRA acquires Chicago student housing property

    24 July 2017

    Deal completed as a joint venture with local student housing operator

  • RLAM's multi-asset credit fund designed with insurers in mind

    21 July 2017

    Will invest in high yield debt, leveraged loans, asset backed securities and emerging market debt

  • Insurers blame asset managers for insufficient look-through

    21 July 2017

    European insurers pass the buck onto asset managers for lack of reporting data, but Eiopa pursues a hard line with underwriters facing difficulty getting hands on investment data. David Walker reports

  • Beazley rides high on growth assets and corporate debt

    21 July 2017

    Increased allocation to growth assets also helps the specialist insurer improve investment returns