Muang Thai Life mulls stocks boost amid portfolio review

Muang Thai Life, Thailand’s second-biggest insurer by assets, is considering boosting its equity allocation and working with the country's regulator to broaden the range of permitted investments to include asset types such as syndicated loans and infrastructure funds. The development comes as Thai insurers, which are largely barred from investing in alternatives, are being driven by the low-rate environment to change their habits by investing more in stocks, higher-yielding bonds …