News

• Asia to be biggest growth market for private assets in next five years, Preqin says

  09 November 2020

  AuM in continent projected to grow 207%, compared with North America's 30%

• Australian life insurers record AUD 0.5bn loss in H1

  09 November 2020

  Poor result exacerbated by pandemic driven investment market losses, Fitch Ratings notes

• AIG praises hedge funds and private equity for Q3 income rising

  09 November 2020

  Q2 PE results boost investment income, on one-month lag

• Europe's general account regains all lost ground in Q2

  09 November 2020

  EEA insurers had €7.9trn of GA investments by June

• Assured Guaranty posts negative AM result for third quarter in a row

  09 November 2020

  Insurer paid $12m for severance of ex-CIO, Andrew Feldstein in August

• Solvency II review changes may impact Dutch insurers negatively, Moody's says

  07 November 2020

  Dutch lifers face competition from banks and asset managers on product side

• Barings replaces CEO Tom Finke with Mike Freno

  06 November 2020

  Finke retires from asset manager to pursue other opportunities

• Natixis restructures Ostrum AM in JV with La Banque Postal

  06 November 2020

  Affiliated asset manager has €430bn AuM, 75% of which are insurance assets

• Scor reveals reinvestment freeze at height of pandemic crisis

  06 November 2020

  French underwriter's reinvestment yield is now 1.4%

• UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance rules out coal investments

  06 November 2020

  And calls on underwriters to help investment teams in their engagement efforts