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Fairfax posts $18.4m Q1 investment losses
28 April 2017Losses stemmed but equities continue to plague the group's investment returns
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Low rates to slice $55bn off insurers' investment income this year, predicts Moody's
27 April 2017Insurers in Germany, Norway and Taiwan most likely to take hit on profits
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Scor divests from tobacco
27 April 2017Cash holdings reduced, fixed income duration increased and rebalanced towards corporate bonds
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Eiopa requests evidence on unlisted equity and debt charges
27 April 2017Consultation paper launched after Commission seeks to bolster Capital Markets Union
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Phoenix funds £45m Birmingham housing project
26 April 2017Cashflows in excess of gilts will back annuity book, and sit in matching adjustment portfolio
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Transition to alternatives helps cut UK annuity pricing
26 April 2017Insurers no longer reliant on corporate bond spreads
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Japanese insurers hunt en masse for foreign bonds
26 April 2017Local bond investments will be more selective, underwriters say
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Nuernberger's lower investment result a sign of the times for German life sector
26 April 2017Finding yields above 1.2% for acceptable risk is a "considerable challenge", insurer says
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Axa IM divests from coal reliant companies
25 April 2017Manager will shed €165m in fixed income and €12m in equities to avoid holding 'stranded assets'
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Chinese regulator demands improvement in investment risk management
24 April 2017Requires firms to establish better systems to control liquidity risk and fund management
- Japan Post Insurance strikes funded re deal with Talcott Life Re and Aflac Re Bermuda
- Comment: Japanese insurers join the space-race
- Lifers' trade body desired different risk-allowance floor in annuity capital framework revision
- Generali Asset Management appoints new CEO and general manager
- Highly predictable cashflow assets - still waiting for the goldrush?
- Chart of the Week: Sovereigns and equities biggest risk for European insurers' solvency ratios
- Conning sticks to cautious asset approach as geopolitical shocks test markets
- Japan Post Insurance plans further $1bn EM outsourcing, and stake-building with Ashmore
- Apollo-backed Challenger pragmatic as MA fails to appear in annuities rules re-write
- APAC Weekly: Insurers' healthy outlook at a new dawn for regulations in Japan