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Standard Life Aberdeen challenges Lloyds’ decision to axe Scottish Widows portfolio

SLA seeking to hold onto £109bn portfolio

Axa hedges equity risk with derivatives purchase

Boosts solvency ratio by 8 percentage points

Aviva Investors to sell its £5bn indirect real estate business

Fund manager believed to be closing in on a deal with LaSalle Investment Management

Allianz to stop investing in coal completely by 2040

German insurer Allianz has announced it will phase out investments in the coal sector completely by 2040.

Sustainable assets do not equal low-risk, warns German regulator

BaFin cautions against ESA review creating “bureaucratic monster”

MetLife targets Asia-Pacific with sales hire

Lancashire investment portfolio slips to loss in Q1

Volatile equity markets and US rate increase dent total investment return

Greenlight Re posts near worst $145m investment loss

Greenlight Capital Re, the hedge fund reinsurer based in Bermuda, reported a net loss of $142.8m for the first quarter of 2018, compared to a gain of $8.4m for the same period in 2017.

Folksam and Aberdeen Standard Investments launch €300m fund

Folksam Group aims to replicate its success in the Swedish real estate market across Europe

Aviva Investors buys stake in two Scottish wind farms

Aviva Investors has acquired a 49% interest in a portfolio of UK onshore wind farms from Norwegian developer and operator of renewable energies Fred. Olsen Renewables for a total cash consideration of £117.3m ($160.7m).