News

• Barings secures €650m in real estate debt commitments

  20 July 2022

  Nearly half of which was contributed by Nordic insurer

• UK Chancellor of Exchequer vows repeal of "hundreds of pieces" of EU law

  20 July 2022

  Nadhim Zahawi tells City UK needs "financial regulation right for us"

• EIOPA reveals outsourcing patterns across EEA insurers

  20 July 2022

  Annual review identified proportion of operational-activity delegations relating to investing by country

• "We want to invest in infra, but we don't want to be penalized for it," Aviva's Blanc says

  20 July 2022

  Reforms to the Solvency II rules in post-Brexit UK should enable these investments

• US insurer ETF use hits $45bn in 2021, 15% up from previous year

  19 July 2022

  Insurers have doubled use of ETFs every four years since 2004, S&P says

• NN IP launches social bond fund

  19 July 2022

  Focusing on bonds that allocate proceeds of social projects, such as infrastructure and health

• Schroders invests in blockchain and digital asset focused AM

  19 July 2022

  Blockchain will be a catalyst for fundamental change, Schroders CEO says

• abrdn transforms four funds to Article 8 portfolios

  19 July 2022

  Brings total undergoing such change to 27 this year

• Comment - On your marks, s-e-e-t, go (sell more life backbooks)!

  19 July 2022

  Jefferies analyst Philip Kett fires starting gun in possible race to sell life backbooks

• Analysts welcome Axa's €661m German backbook deal

  18 July 2022

  Axa Deutschland's SFCR reveals "complete overhaul" of life product range