Archive

  • Time for insurers to consider value-add real estate lending strategies?

    04 May 2026

    Sunlife's asset manager think so

  • German insurers welcome seismic pension reform - with caveats

    27 April 2026

    Germany's Riester Rente system was certainly in need of change, but practitioners aren't wholly convinced what's coming quite fits the bill...

  • China's leading re/insurers use GAs, to 'renew their social licences'

    20 April 2026

    Backing Beijing's five key national projects almost trumped investment yields, in underwriters' 2025 result

  • APAC Weekly - Australia's annuity writer(s) wins out in capital framework re-set

    07 April 2026

    Apollo-backed Challenger argued for some significantly different capital framework settings, to those its industry will get, come July

  • Athora: The benefit of patient capital, in private credit

    06 April 2026

    For every €1 the re/insurer has deployed in private credit since 2018, losses have affected €0.007, as David Walker discovers

  • 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

  • Highly predictable cashflow assets - still waiting for the goldrush?

    30 March 2026

    The 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

  • The Middle East conflict is a 'general account event' for insurers

    23 March 2026

    Risks are on the downside and more on the 'asset side' of re/insurers' businesses, experts say

  • Comment: Chin up! Real estate investors look firmly ahead, not to see their own shadows

    16 March 2026

    Will the groundhog beat a retreat to its burrow for a while longer?

  • 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