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ASR collaborates with bank on €600m sustainable lending mandate

Dutch insurer ASR and Triodos Bank are to jointly lend €600m ($748m) to environmentally and socially aware businesses.

UK's matching adjustment proposals fall short of expectations - ABI

Progress in the right direction but criteria still too restrictive, argues association

Axa IM attracts insurers to $1.4bn of CLO deals

Axa Investment Managers (Axa IM) has raised $1.4bn in three collateralised loan obligation (CLO) deals over the last 12 months – with insurers accounting for almost a quarter of the total.

Aberdeen Standard Investments launches employment fund with poverty charity

Fund helps promote good employment practices and supports UN Sustainable Development Goal

Asset managers serving DB pensions have skills for life firms

Frankfurter-Leben Gruppe among German insurers buying up pension investment assets

PIC funds £63m Swansea student accommodation

PIC's investments in university campuses worth more than £300m

Sustainability must not be sole criterion for investment, say EU insurers

Insurance Europe outlines steps to incorporate ESG factors following HLEG's report

Allianz Global Investors buys into seven French wind farms

US insurers not into short-term relationships with asset managers, research finds

Insurance managers win seven net new clients on average a year

PIC continues social housing pledge with £40m investment