Pacific Life appoints HSBC in lending move

Pacific Life Insurance Company of Newport, California's largest life insurer, has appointed HSBC Bank USA to run a $17bn (&euro19.4bn) securities lending programme.

Initially, the newly-created team, headed by Shawn Doherty, will lend a sizeable portion of the $17bn in assets, eventually lending the whole portfolio.

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