News

• M&G Prudential buys UK rail freight firm

  27 September 2019

  GB Railfreight is fourth investment through Infracapital

• BaFin reveals 12% investment turnover rate by insurers in 2018

  27 September 2019

  Regulator also ran tests using 1.2% reinvestment yield last year

• Insurers vie with funds for control of PG&E

  27 September 2019

  The underwriters are owed $20bn from California wildfire, so aim to take over bankrupt utility

• Minnesota Life in $30m Washington state investment deal

  27 September 2019

  Guaranteed investment contract to be managed by insurer affiliate, Securian

• Germans boost infrastructure holdings by almost two-thirds in 2018

  26 September 2019

  Lack of domestic projects not keeping pace with appetite, says GDV

• Moody's expects German life insurers to sell off more fixed income to feed cash reserves

  26 September 2019

  Offloading fixed income for ZZR cost 0.5% in returns last year, says Moody's

• Hymans Robertson taps KPMG for life investment unit head

  25 September 2019

  New recruit Daniel Becker brings expertise in private assets

• Pension funds and insurers commit to carbon-neutral investments by 2050

  25 September 2019

  The newly launched alliance is responsible for $2.4trn in investments

• Sanlam UK buys Thesis Asset Management

  25 September 2019

  Deal takes Sanlam’s UK assets to £4.2bn

• Onderlinge’s-Gravenhage invests €100m into ASR Dutch Core Residential Fund

  25 September 2019

  Dutch insurer’s housing fund now counts 10 institutional clients