Adam Leach

• Investment returns helps MassMutual deliver record dividend

  05 November 2018

  Board of directors’ approves plan to pay out $1.72bn to policyholders and members

• Allianz GI launches Asian private credit team

  05 November 2018

  Insurer’s investment arm is targeting ‘largest’ private credit market in emerging markets

• Boutique asset managers outperform non-boutiques by 16%

  02 November 2018

  Institutional investors would record greater returns if they gave mandates to smaller asset managers, latest research highlights

• Dutch investors support mandating ESG as part of fiduciary duty

  02 November 2018

  CFA Institute survey finds little support amongst European insurers to legislate on sustainable finance

• US insurer CSAA seeds first Californian forest bond $4.6m

  01 November 2018

  Forest Resilience Bond to finance forest restoration in Northern California

• Tensions flare between Exxon and its shareholders over climate disclosures

  01 November 2018

  A decade of shareholder engagement at Exxon seem to have gone down the drain as the company now faces a lawsuit for misleading investors. While insurers were quick to broadcast their role in exercising shareholder powers, they are now found coy to comment. Adam Leach reports

  

• Four countries hold 80% of European insurers’ €10trn investments

  31 October 2018

  France, the UK, Germany and Italy are Europe’s big four

• M&G Real Estate invests in Japanese homes

  30 October 2018

  Prudential’s real estate investment arm acquires 561 homes for $83.7m

• L&G buys into property tech start-up

  30 October 2018

  Legal & General Capital takes stake in connectivity accreditor WiredScore

• AXA IM invests €161m in Irish property

  30 October 2018

  Joint venture with Kennedy Wilson acquires 274 units near Dublin