David Walker

• Talanx equity sales help feed life reserve fund

  19 March 2018

  Talanx posted an 11.3% rise in income from investments in 2017 and crystallised gains—largely on its shareholdings—to help feed the mandatory reserve fund for its life business.

• Partner Re's equity-like investments leap in 2017 ahead of possible equity market fall

  14 March 2018

  Partner Re saw its investment results jump from $414m in 2016 to $720m last year, thanks to rising share markets and price increases as spreads in fixed income tightened.

• Hannover Re attributes record investment result to sale of listed equities

  13 March 2018

  Overall return of 3.8% helped by private equity portfolio

• French insurers welcome EC sustainable investment proposals

  12 March 2018

  "FFA joins growing support for EC paper"

• Aviva tells affiliate manager to find more illiquid investments

  08 March 2018

  Aviva has put finding more external business and more illiquid assets on this year's agenda for its affiliate manager, Aviva Investors.

• LGIM falls just shy of £1tn asset mark

  07 March 2018

  Sees record third-party subscriptions for 2017

• Helvetia favours fixed income, but sees outperformance in equity in 2017

  06 March 2018

  Swiss insurer Helvetia invested mainly in European bonds, US credit and treasuries for its new investments last year as its portfolio returned CHF1.3bn, or 2.8% for 2017.

• Axa and XL set to create $750bn combined investment pot

  05 March 2018

  But fate of which affiliate gets what, remains unclear

• German insurers call for better data and definitions to encourage ESG investing

  02 March 2018

  German insurers are holding back from environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing because of a lack of uniform definitions and comparable data, their trade body says.

• Uniqa promises to fix deteriorating investment result

  28 February 2018

  Low rates largely reflected in previous years' declines, Austrian company claims