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  • Japanese lifers looking for a beacon in the equity markets storm

    16 April 2025

    With trade wars sending markets haywire, and equities being the highest risk in insurers' investment portfolios, investment and risk teams are holding firm, in the hope of a window of blue sky

  • Schroders takes £2.1bn management mandate for Scottish Friendly

    15 April 2025

    Deal follows Scottish Friendly's decision to simplify its product offering as part of a unit-linked fund rationalisation project

  • SLAM acquires majority stake in European aerial emergency services firm

    15 April 2025

    Affiliate will also provide Eliance with growth capital to expand its presence in its home markets of Spain, Italy, and Croatia

  • Sumitomo Life ups FY2025 ESG thematic investment target to JPY 1trn

    15 April 2025

    Lifer also expands 2030 asset portfolio GHG emissions reduction target to include all domestic group companies

  • Axa IM Alts completes €300m sale of Spanish real estate portfolio

    15 April 2025

    Containing assets across the office and logistics sector

  • MIM reaches $660m close on private equity fund

    15 April 2025

    Asset manager's third PE fund launched last year

  • APAC Weekly - Would you panic-buy rice?

    15 April 2025

    Cool heads were needed, but arguably hard to find, this month, as Donald Trump's tariffs stirred up a storm across APAC

  • Axa IM appoints new portfolio manager to focus on US equity

    15 April 2025

    Gordon Happell to take on role after decade-long stint at Columbia Threadneedle Investments

  • CDPQ acquires power transmission business in Brazil

    14 April 2025

    Through subsidiary Verene Energia

  • Downturn will reveal who has been swimming naked in private markets, CIO of Convex says

    14 April 2025

    David Dowsett, chief investment officer at Convex Insurance, sat down with Insurance Asset Risk, in a week that saw a market meltdown induced by President Trump's short-lived plan for global tariffs.