All articles by Rachel Fixsen – Page 212
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Features
Privatised AGF ventures out
In its first foray into asset management outsourcing, French insurance giant AGF has awarded a clutch of mandates worth Ffr2bn ($340m). And it has already launched another search for fund managers to look after a further Ffr2.5bn of assets.The next mandates will be in the investment areas of global high-yield ...
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New rules prompt Spezialfonds boom
Interest in Germany’s Spezialfonds is booming. Insurance companies and pension funds in the country almost doubled their investment in this type of fund last year, thanks in part to an obscurely worded change in investment regulations.In 1995 insurers invested DM15.8bn ($xxbn) of assets in Spezialfonds -a type of investment fund ...
