News

• Investments boost South Korean insurers H1 results

  23 August 2018

  Increased gains led to a 11.7% increase in income investments

• Chinese insurers’ AuM grew 11.4% in 2017

  23 August 2018

  Exposure to bonds grew by 20%

• Risk management and optimizing investment strategies

  23 August 2018

  Insurers want more alternative assets but struggle to evaluate the optimum risk/return portfolio

• Barings enhances presence in Asia with two new appointments

  23 August 2018

  Duncan Robertson and Shelley Liu to oversee Asia operations

• Allianz doubly affected by Italian bridge collapse

  22 August 2018

  Investment formed part of Allianz’s infrastructure push

• Real estate bonds attractive but not risk-free, Austrian regulator warns

  22 August 2018

  189 real estate bonds have been issued on the Austrian capital market in Q1 2018

• ASI launches global equity AI fund

  22 August 2018

  Machine learning component will identify sources of potential returns

• Low-yield environment increases insurers appetite for illiquid assets

  22 August 2018

  Corporate bonds remain most popular investment for non-life insurers

• Argentina launches ARS$ 6bn fund to finance SMEs

  22 August 2018

  Especially targeted at insurance companies’ investments

• AllianceBernstein closes third US commercial real estate fund

  21 August 2018

  With $3.1bn capital committed, including from global insurers