Archive

  • 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

  • Non-lifers' appetite for private assets will grow in 2026, BlackRock says

    14 January 2026

    Insurers need to recognise long-duration nature of data centres and artificial intelligence

  • 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

  • How did insurers survive a rocky year on the "surprise index"?

    29 December 2025

    Wellington talks interest rate fluctuations, geopolitics and the new bogeyman of the moment - the threat of an AI bubble

  • 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

  • Outsourcing roundtable series: Part I, Does the traditional 'mandate model' has a future?

    18 December 2025

    Insurers explore how regulation, private assets and ESG are reshaping outsourcing today and in the decade ahead.

  • The savings illusion: why Europe needs investment, not deposits - and the insurers' role

    10 December 2025

    With the EU pushing to turn savers into investors, Zurich's Alison Martin says insurers are ready to deliver low-cost, consumer-friendly investment products - but only if the regulatory playing field allows it.

  • Private credit: the feel-good factor?

    03 December 2025

    Part IV of a private credit story, following a Kishōtenketsu narrative

  • Private credit: are headline news and underlying performance one and the same?

    26 November 2025

    Part III of a private credit story, following a Kishōtenketsu narrative