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Friends Life awards £500m infrastructure mandate to MetLife
13 November 2013Infrastructure assets will be long-term UK based senior loans
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Prudential Financial accepts US SIFI designation
21 October 2013Joins AIG on "too big to fail" list
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Axa places €350m cat bond
16 October 2013The windstorm catastrophe bond is the largest euro-denominated issuance to date
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Monsanto pays $1bn for weather risk firm
03 October 2013The Climate Corporation's agricultural analytics were the attraction
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Swiss investment fund to provide regulatory capital to smaller insurers
12 September 2013Twelve Capital sees opportunity in banks' withdrawal from lending
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Munich Re acquires RenRe's weather risk unit
03 September 2013RenRe Energy Advisors sold for "mid double-digit million" dollars
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ILS market set to broaden in scope
30 August 2013Lower spreads no barrier to market growth, says Aon Benfield Securities
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MetLife in line for systemically important designation
18 July 2013CEO says firm is no threat to financial system
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New capital muscles into the reinsurance business
12 July 2013Hedge funds, pension funds and wealth managers are among the newer investors reshaping the way that reinsurance operates and prices risk. These non-traditional investors like the returns available and the lack of correlation with other capital markets. But do they fully appreciate the risks? Sarfraz Thind reports
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Twelve Capital hires leading risk management academic
12 July 2013Markus Stricker joins Swiss insurance investment firm