MAP20180015649Insurance industry investment : an analysis of the placement of insurance industry investment in selected markets / MAPFRE Economic Research. — Madrid : Fundación MAPFRE, 2018Traducción de: Inversiones del sector asegurador : un análisis de localización de las inversiones del sector asegurador en mercados seleccionadosSumario: This report analyzes the dimension and role of the insurance sector as a relevant and stable investor for financing economies. In order to have a representative group of markets, the kinds of assets insurers invest in, in what proportions, and the variations thereof in the last decade have been studied. It is shown how investment decisions depend in large part on the need for asset and liability matching, on capital charges from solvency regimes and on their intrinsic risk