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Time for insurers to consider value-add real estate lending strategies?
04 May 2026Sunlife's asset manager think so
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Interview: Swiss Life AM on real estate's next cycle
22 April 2026Jan Plückhahn discusses why real estate is entering a new investment cycle
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Data centres: The darlings of discussions but not yet of allocation
02 April 2026Insurers' enthusiasm for the sector is tempered by doubts over concentration risk, obsolescence, exits and even whether the assets belong in real estate at all
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Investing in private markets: Asset-backed finance gaining ground with insurers
01 April 2026Why the asset class is attracting growing attention from insurers, how allocations are evolving in practice, and what risks and constraints investors must navigate
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Highly predictable cashflow assets - still waiting for the goldrush?
30 March 2026The Solvency UK reforms allowing insurers to invest up to 10% of their MA portfolios in 'highly predictable' cashflow assets launched in June 2024, but its positive impact was not immediately clear
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Rethinking real estate
26 March 2026For years, real estate sat comfortably inside insurers' portfolios: a long-duration asset class offering income, diversification and, in a world of ultra-low interest rates, a relatively easy route to attractive returns.
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Real Estate giving back allocation to other asset classes, insurers say
25 March 2026Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's Investing in Private Markets conference unenthusiastic about data centres
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Comment: Chin up! Real estate investors look firmly ahead, not to see their own shadows
16 March 2026Will the groundhog beat a retreat to its burrow for a while longer?
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IAR private markets 2026: Good securitisation is not financial alchemy
11 March 2026Panel discuss how securitisation has become a strategic tool for insurers' investments
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Infra investing: Predictability is the name of the regulation game
04 March 2026Regulators need to get better at building structures for the ever-changing nature, and definition, of infrastructure