News

  • EEA's insurers' bond appetite revealed

    27 December 2021

    French CIOs love bonds, Northern Europeans prefer corporates and eastern Europeans like govvies

  • Chart of the week - CIOs rush to 'junk', but Gordon Gekko is nowehere to be seen...

    24 December 2021

    A hunt for junk by insurers worldwide is more about honouring promises, than being greedy

  • Mainland China is Hong Kong's green finance future, investors say

    23 December 2021

    Insurance conference hears HK has "natural advantage" to help Beijing achieve net zero

  • CRE continues to be UK and Dutch insurers' domain

    22 December 2021

    Together, they hold nearly half of all CRE held by EEA insurers

  • NYDFS capital change opens door to greater insurer ETF use

    21 December 2021

    New legislation gives bond ETFs the same capital treatment as fixed income

  • Share of French insurers' GA investments erodes further

    21 December 2021

    Accounting for less than 25% of total in Europe, from 38% three years ago

  • US insurer derivatives holdings soar 45% in five years

    20 December 2021

    Annuity issuers increased derivatives use to hedge against volatility and low rates

  • "Widening investment gap" in burgeoning net-zero infrastructure, DWS says

    20 December 2021

    Immensity of opportunity may be outrunning even insurers' demand

  • M&G infrastructure team to buy Dutch logistics company

    17 December 2021

    It will form part of a strategy to acquire brownfield infrastructure

  • AXA IM Alts increases US industrial portfolio

    17 December 2021

    It is acquiring a $2bn portfolio of 32 assets