This $70 Billion Nordic Manager Looks to Loans to Juice Returns

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Norway’s biggest life insurer is stepping up investments in direct loans as a way to escape negative interest rates.

Storebrand ASA has a “strategic intention” to buy more asset-backed loans and bank syndicate loans, according to the insurer’s asset management chief.