Douglas Shillito This week, the latest Willis Towers Watson / Mergermarket report revealed that deal value for global insurance M&A was up €37bn in the first six months of 2018. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) set out the issues it will focus on as part of a market study into how general insurance firms charge […]
David Worsfold “Equivalence”. The cheers echoed around the streets of the City of London, as newspapers carried a succession of optimistic reports from the Brexit frontline. November brought promises of a breakthrough deal to enable UK financial services firms to keep trading in the European Union after Brexit, raising spirits and the pound sterling. Now […]
Fixed income is the heartland of insurer and pension fund investment strategies. Analysing trends, and predicting where interest rates and bond yields might be heading have been core competencies for generations. A new research paper from Aviva Investors now challenges investors to ask whether they are ready for the shift from price rich to data-rich […]
The real estate debt market has changed dramatically since the global financial crisis of 2007-08 and it is now an asset that should be firmly on insurers’ investment radar screens. This was the theme of the of the Insurance Investment Exchange roundtable on 22nd March 2018, held in conjunction with M&G Investments.
There is plenty of fine talk – increasingly coupled with ambitious policy objectives – around responsible investment, but hard data about the impact of different approaches on investment portfolios is still hard to come by.
According to the report, while the global economic outlook continues to improve, the prolonged low yield environment and low market volatility coupled with high levels of economic and political uncertainty continue to represent major challenges for European insurers and pensions funds.
