Archive

  • Insurers' investment strategies at stake in LTG proposals

    30 January 2013

    Industry should take opportunity to give feedback, says Towers Watson

  • Bonds take bigger slice of UK pension assets

    29 January 2013

    Exceeded equity investments again last year, says NAPF

  • Allianz and HSBC sign 10-year life and pension product deal

    29 January 2013

    Bank will distribute products in Turkey

  • Learning from Japan's 'lost decades'

    24 January 2013

    With much of Europe mired in a deepening recession, the parallels with Japan's 'lost decades' become ever more acute. Paul Fulcher and Teoman Kaplan explore whether European insurers can learn from their Japanese peers in how to deal with a prolonged state of stagnant economic growth and low interest rates

  • BlackRock predicts insurance asset reallocation in 2013

    24 January 2013

    Says insurers will replace banks in fixed income asset investment

  • AllianzGI to launch Europe building fund

    23 January 2013

    Will launch UK fund in Q2

  • Rothesay Life and Vestey agree £115m bulk annuity deal

    22 January 2013

    Goldman Sachs' insurance arm wrote over £1bn of new bulk annuity business in 2012

  • PIC signs second Cookson deal

    21 January 2013

    Covers £30m of pensioner liabilities for Vesuvius

  • Skilled people leaving banking for insurance

    21 January 2013

    Optimism and profitability also up for UK life and general insurance, PwC and CBI survey finds

  • Record capital creates reinsurance supply and demand gap

    15 January 2013

    Cat bond total reached $6.3bn in 2012, says Aon Benfield