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  • The proof is in the premium - private market assets on trial

    06 May 2026

    Insurers are hungry for private market assets, but they're expecting managers to provide more data and proof of illiquidity premiums than ever before, according to recent research

  • Data centres: The darlings of discussions but not yet of allocation

    02 April 2026

    Insurers' enthusiasm for the sector is tempered by doubts over concentration risk, obsolescence, exits and even whether the assets belong in real estate at all

  • Real Estate giving back allocation to other asset classes, insurers say

    25 March 2026

    Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's Investing in Private Markets conference unenthusiastic about data centres

  • Where next for European private credit?

    09 March 2026

    Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's Investing in Private Markets conference single out CRE lending as a pocket of opportunity and highlight importance of credit rating fundamentals

  • Insurance Asset Risk's investing in private markets 2026 round-up

    25 February 2026

    Highlights from the day's discussions

  • Are US Treasuries 'safe' or is it time to strike them out?

    16 February 2026

    Investors reduced allocations in H1 2025 to US govvies, but their utility remains

  • Outsourcing RT series: Part IV, The future for outsourcing

    15 January 2026

    Insurers give an insight into the primary ways they expect the practice of outsourcing, and the nature of relationships of manager to CIO will change

  • Outsourcing RT series: Part III, Outsourcing and private markets assets - a new world for outsourcing?

    01 January 2026

    Insurers explore the potential impact of insurance CIOs increased appetite for non-mainstream, manager-originated assets, on the outsourcing agreements

  • Outsourcing RT series: Part II, structuring the modern outsourcing deal: insurers expectation

    25 December 2025

    Insurers examine how, together with their asset managers, they are now structuring outsourcing arrangements

  • Real Estate debt - lending high, activity low?

    24 December 2025

    Aviva Investors' head of real estate debt, Gregor Bamert, discusses the reasons RE debt has become increasingly attractive to investors, and why the office is very much alive