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  • DEI is all about valuing staff, and driving earnings at APAC insurers

    14 March 2025

    DEI policies offer more than a feel-good factor for Asia's underwriters. They're profit-drivers

  • UK insurers welcome Planning and Infrastructure Bill

    13 March 2025

    Which they expect will create pipeline of investible projects

  • PE market valuations "unnaturally high", RLAM says, advises caution on private markets

    13 March 2025

    Bid-offer gap opening up as default rate has been "muted" and market accepts higher-for-longer interest rates

  • What China's largest life insurer really thinks about Warren Buffett

    13 March 2025

    Insurance industry is "ammunition depot for Berkshire's large-scale investment", says CLAM

  • Sompo plans hybrid bond buying as equity sale proceeds accelerate

    13 March 2025

    Japanese group expects over JPY 400bn strategic stake divestments by March

  • Japan Post Insurance eyes bond investments using credit default swaps

    13 March 2025

    JPI wants its asset management permissions to be widened, also for property purchases

  • Achmea reports 22% growth in AuM following acquisition of manager

    13 March 2025

    And says its on track to deliver on its sustainability goals

  • Insurers double down on defence spending, while maintaining ESG exclusions

    12 March 2025

    ESG and defence investments not mutually exclusive, insurers suggest, as NATO powers commit to spend more

  • Aviva Investors makes dual £21m investment in UK science and technology firms

    12 March 2025

    Invests in Oxford Science Enterprises and portfolio company Alloyed

  • Manulife Investments launches semiconductor opportunities fund

    12 March 2025

    Plans to benefit from AI boom