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  • Apollo poaches Ellermeyer from MetLife IM

    30 September 2019

    Will work in insurance solutions group at asset manager

  • Viridium sells German real estate to buy "stable" assets

    30 September 2019

    Commerz Real acquires portfolio of 49 city-centre assets from insurer

  • Prudential's Eastspring to buy Thai fund manager

    30 September 2019

    Asian asset manager to acquire half of Thanachart Fund for $190m

  • Dutch authorities warn over replacing key mortgage rate benchmarks

    30 September 2019

    Switching from Libor and Eionia proving troublesome for insurers

  • Insurance affiliates hold their own at top table of Europe's asset managers

    30 September 2019

    Many insurers’ affiliated managers have been sent out by their parents to gather third-party assets in recent years – with varying success. The managers might put their affiliation to an underwriting group forward as a credential to win more insurance mandates, but a European CIO questions whether this can be a universal truth. David Walker reports

  • The days of an easy life for European non-life investment teams are over

    30 September 2019

    As many non-life insurers come to rely on their investment performance for an ever greater slice of their total profits, or to make up for underwriting losses, investment teams are looking at new asset classes with the help of external managers. Far greater transparency about the insurers' business practices is offering a unique glimpse into what they want and to whom they outsource this key task. David Walker reports

  • PRA sticks to its guns on ERM deferment rates

    30 September 2019

    Parameters for effective value test left unchanged from consultation proposal

  • M&G Prudential buys UK rail freight firm

    27 September 2019

    GB Railfreight is fourth investment through Infracapital

  • BaFin reveals 12% investment turnover rate by insurers in 2018

    27 September 2019

    Regulator also ran tests using 1.2% reinvestment yield last year

  • Insurers vie with funds for control of PG&E

    27 September 2019

    The underwriters are owed $20bn from California wildfire, so aim to take over bankrupt utility