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  • Can the Pacific Ocean fit into a lake?

    31 August 2021

    Christian Bongiovanni, head of insurance for EMEA at State Street, answers this riddle, and discusses the bank's partnership with SimCorp and recent M&A activities among insurance asset managers. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Nippon Life provides its first green loans

    31 August 2021

    For a combined JPY 2.5bn to finance green real estate

  • Getting down to net-zero Down Under

    QBE is the only Australian insurer to be part of the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance so far. Its group CIO, Gary Brader, discusses the firm's net-zero commitment and why, even when the target is 29 years away today is the day to act. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • PIC finances emergency housing in London

    31 August 2021

    Arrangement has a 50-year structure "matching pensions" it must honour

  • News round-up - 31 August 2021

    31 August 2021

    Ampega AM; Swiss Life AM; M&G; HSBC AM

  • Dutch insurer warns of ongoing fallout from 'Woekerpolis' unit-linked affair

    30 August 2021

    Affair stretches back nearly 20 years in Netherlands

  • MetLife IM buys $825m office, largest US deal to date in 2021

    27 August 2021

    Acquisition in conjunction with Norges Bank Investment Management

  • Chart of the week: Spanish insurers' debt and property - trouble looming for insurers?

    27 August 2021

    Insurers in Spain that are heavily reliant on Madrid not going bust

  • Natixis amongst investors in Chinese renewables

    27 August 2021

    TEESS obtains green loan in China for 170 megawatts (MW) portfolio

  • Oil firms facing increased cost of capital as ESG pressure grows, says Aegon

    27 August 2021

    Rising pressure on investors and banks to take a more stringent stance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns