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News round-up - 09 March 2021

L&G; Allianz Real Estate

Direct Line reports 29.3% drop in investment return

Due to lower reinvestment rates and write downs

Phoenix reveals details of £10bn illiquid investments portfolio

Disclosures include state-backing, credit quality and re-ordering of illiquids

Allianz agrees Asia fintech collaboration for AllianzGI

Insurer puts $75m into Hong Kong's WeLab

Investment threats key to Asian life firms' futures

S&P Global Ratings says underwriting dangers are secondary in most APAC countries

Women make less than a quarter of insurers' executives

Only 10% of the sector's CEOs and 8% of board chairs are female

Italian general accounts could shift from Aviva in announced M&A

French investments already leaving Aviva in sale to Aéma

Libor to formally cease at end of the year, FCA says

Authority looking at ways to help transition of expiring benchmark

Royal London Asset Management steals spotlight at parent's annual results

Sustainable fund flows praised by CEO

Chart of the week: It's a gas - PensionDanmark measures its investments' CO2 emissions