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  • 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

  • How to stress-test €600bn worth of private markets assets

    18 February 2026

    As Europe's regulators mull what stressors are best to test a private markets portfolio, managers have some thoughts...

  • 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

  • It's still early innings for Alt IM-owned insurers - what's their play?

    28 January 2026

    Fitch Ratings warns of "elevated losses" if the credit cycle turns and discusses "esoteric" investments

  • Something rotten in the state of US debt - Danes 'dump Trump'

    26 January 2026

    Mercurial politics, Fed independence and sheer indebtedness all play roles for Danish and Swedish CIOs ditching US debt

  • 'Life re'- Europe's €560bn booming business

    21 January 2026

    As funded reinsurance of life liabilities takes off, analysis reveals the enormous extent of 'life re' since Solvency II began

  • 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

  • Welcome back from the Christmas that changed everything

    05 January 2026

    The risk of an AI bubble seemed to be dominating insurers thoughts coming in 2026, but then Christmas happened

  • 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