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Are insurers' outsourcing agreements contracts 'made in heaven'?
29 January 2024Investment management agreements lock in some tasty fees for managers signing on the dotted line, but insurance CIOs increasingly expect a wide scope of 'extras' to boot
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D&I isn't just for the 'woke' crowd
25 January 2024Andy Mason, head of active ownership at abrdn, explains why D&I at investee companies is a priority for an asset manager and how diversity helps companies' bottom lines
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PRT market records are there to be broken, but they are not a measure of success, L&G's Moret says
23 January 2024Dom Moret, head of origination and execution on the pension risk transfer team, takes Insurance Asset Risk behind the scenes of a record year in the pension risk transfer market at L&G
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Regulation and lack of council expertise is driving investment inequality in the UK
17 January 2024PIC's managing director, Hayley Rees, explains on behalf of the Purposeful Finance Commission how local council constraints and a complex planning regime have held back investment outside the UK capital
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Japan's fossil fuel puzzle
15 January 2024Japan's progress to sustainable investing has been a slow one. The country remains hampered by a largely fossil fuel-dependent economy, a puzzling challenge for insurers.
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Real estate opportunities await in 2024, M&G says
10 January 2024Jose-Luis Pellicer, global head of investment strategy at M&G Real Estate, discusses the outlook for the real estate market next year with Insurance Asset Risk, and explains the 'mindset shift' the sector needs
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Comment - How life insurers might respond to the IMF on private equity risks
08 January 2024The IMF listed various risks of growing PE involvement in the re/insurance industry
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Benign or bust - The outlook for 2024 is anything but boring
03 January 2024Decisions from central banks, political instability, regulatory changes - many of the threats posed by 2024 are out of insurer's hands
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A sense of doom and gloom greeted the arrival of 2023, but was it really as bad as expected?
01 January 2024Fixed income and sub-investment grade investments were key trends in a year that was not exactly benign
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IMF looks to ruin PE-insurer party
29 December 2023The International Monetary Fund has raised further warning flags on private equity-owned insurance businesses. At the heart of the concerns are the illiquid assets these insurers use which may lead to financial catastrophe, if the IMF is to be believed.
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- Manulife acquires private credit manager Comvest for $937.5m
- M&G Real Estate makes first Korean resi investment
- M&G's impact manager expands into climate adaptation finance
- Standard Life signs £1.9bn BPA deal with Marsh McLennan-sponsored pension fund
- Groupe France Mutuelle sings praises of structured bond market revival
- PGIM's senior loan fund reaches $4.2bn final close
- Just Group originated 80% of its £1bn of illiquids inhouse in H1
- APAC Weekly - South Korea's life industry joins APAC's buyers in overseas M&A
- Chart of the Week: Groupe MAF sets out projections for net financial profits, to 2028