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PGIM Fixed Income re-appoints ex-Biden administration advisor as chief global economist
19 March 2025Daleep Singh twice filled role as US deputy national security advisor for international economics and deputy director of the National Economic Council
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US/Europe economic outlooks trade places, AllianzGI says, favours curve-steepeners
18 March 2025Firm's global CIO fixed income says "market euphoria" following November's US elections now a "distant memory"
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Just Group completes £75m multi-scheme buy-in deal
18 March 2025Transaction with The Church of Scotland Pension Trustees schemes was 129th buy-in deal for insurer in 2024
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European insurers to benefit from higher gov defence spending and higher bond yields, Fitch says
17 March 2025While also warning of mass lapse risk and limited impact on Solvency II positions
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Scottish Widows' head of RI on AI and AMs' voting records
17 March 2025Eva Cairns, head of responsible investment at Scottish Widows, explains the firm's governance policy around AI and the outcome of expecting voting policy adherence from asset managers
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PE market valuations "unnaturally high", RLAM says, advises caution on private markets
13 March 2025Bid-offer gap opening up as default rate has been "muted" and market accepts higher-for-longer interest rates
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AllianzGI positive on UK listing reforms - but warns against erosion of governance standards
10 March 2025Simon Gergel, CIO UK equities, tells Insurance Asset Risk there's still room to go further
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Axa IM Alts signs first two pre-lets on Munich timber-based office development
06 March 2025The Stack is expected to be completed by the end of 2025
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Aviva Investors backs Cambridge innovation campus with £40.3m debt facility
06 March 2025Deal is the first real estate debt investment to be made by Aviva Investors' MSPD LTAF since its launch in November 2024
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L&G completes £505m buy-in with the Inchcape Motors Pension Scheme
05 March 2025LGAM has managed a portion of the scheme's assets since 2018
- Comment: Insurers at the centre of pension de-risking's capital market shift
- Bringing structured private credit to European insurers
- Munich Re calls for "more pragmatic" regulatory approach to asset classification
- Insurance asset managers eye more risk taking in next 12 months
- Japan insurance trade body responds to IAIS paper on funded re and alternative investing
- Resolution Life seals $1bn block reinsurance deal in Hong Kong
- Swiss Life sells petrol station property in north of England
- 'Rise of the East and decline of the West' heralds "new era" for China's insurance AM
- US life insurers offshored $800bn of reserves since 2018, Moody's says
- Royal London completes largest BPA deal to date
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Chart of the Week - DAV considers the best pension system, as Germany's demographic pyramid develops a 'bulging midriff'
06 June 2025Rigid rules and immutable guarantees could do Germany a disservice, DAV suggests
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Comment - Will Japanese couples stop giving birth to enough insurance CIOs?
06 June 2025A sense of urgency, if not emergency, surrounds insurers' warnings about falling birthrate
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Japan Post Insurance doubles investments in private property fund since July
06 June 2025Dedicated-client fund is being run by Mitsui & Co Realty
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Munich Re calls for "more pragmatic" regulatory approach to asset classification
05 June 2025More also needs to be done to support the use of new technology in the investment process