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Axa Investment's Price: Insurers Shift Assets to Counter Low-Rate Environment

Christopher Price, head of insurance solutions UK, Axa Investment Managers UK, said insurers are looking to shorter-duration and emerging market debt in efforts to gain better yield.

Sept. 11, 2017

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