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Munich Re buys solar farm near Oxford
25 January 2016Reinsurer diversifying its portfolio with sustainable investments
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Banks and asset managers set to take a quarter of UK life insurer profits
25 January 2016Deloitte report urges insurers to respond to market dislocation and disruption
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Prudential Financial and LeapFrog launch Africa insurance fund
25 January 2016Fund will invest in life insurance companies in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria
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Fresh real estate deals at Prudential, Aviva, Axa
22 January 2016Deals involve Canadian industrial real estate, European hotels and a French iconic building.
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Alternative credit: is the illiquidity premium sustainable?
22 January 2016Antti Suhonen and Declan Canavan examine the growing alternative credit buzz and the validity of the corresponding illiquidity premiums.
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MIM hires business development head, starts RE venture
22 January 2016MetLife puts $1.4bn property portfolio into venture with pension fund
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Aegon targets expansion of asset management division
21 January 2016The investment management division of the Dutch insurer wants to meet the increasing demand for benchmark-agnostic active investment solutions. Benedicte Gravrand reports.
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Aberdeen hires head of insurance solutions
21 January 2016Asset manager seeks to expand its £120bn of insurance AuM
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Goodbye gilts as Solvency II shifts asset allocation
20 January 2016Prompted by Solvency II, some insurers have moved out of government bonds and into swaps and short-dated government or corporate bonds. But the swap-based approach is not without its challenges, as Sarfraz Thind reports
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Willis Towers Watson hires two investment consultants for insurance division
20 January 2016WTW expects greater demand for insurance investment solutions