Axa's recovery continues as European insurance stocks rise

Consolidating investment portfolios is rarely a key driver in M&A deal-making. However, once a deal is struck, chief investment officers face a raft of decisions, from pooling assets and exploring new strategies to potentially bringing more investment in-house

Axa leads in strong week for European insurance stocks

London specialty insurers and brokers’ gender pay gap data would have made for difficult reading at the boardroom level. It also appears to have already galvanised change, with flexible working, leadership training, mentoring programmes and new recruitment practices being set up with the aim of growing the number of women in senior leadership positions

With high-yield and emerging market bonds losing their shine, Ageas pushed deeper into less liquid strategies in 2017. Wim Vermeir, the firm’s head of investments, hopes Eiopa will make asset classes like infrastructure debt even more attractive for insurers