Archive

  • Investing in private markets: Asset-backed finance gaining ground with insurers

    01 April 2026

    Why the asset class is attracting growing attention from insurers, how allocations are evolving in practice, and what risks and constraints investors must navigate

  • APAC Weekly - How 'DEI by stealth' is paying off at Japan's insurers

    17 March 2026

    In the past five weeks Japan's insurers might, unknowingly, have just set a new industry record.

  • APAC Weekly - How US M&A 'works' for Japan's mega-insurers

    03 March 2026

    Sompo, Meiji Yasuda Life and MS&AD recently completed acquisitions in the US. Their targets' numbers are no doubt making them smile....

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

    25 February 2026

    Highlights from the day's discussions

  • Private Markets 2026: Aspen Group looks to diversify ABF exposure

    25 February 2026

    Commiting $300m to ABF mandate for 2026

  • 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

  • Sompo faces questions over Palantir sell-downs

    21 November 2025

    Analysts question how much Aspen M&A prompted 1H divestments from tech company

  • APAC Weekly - Sompo flags more M&A even while its Aspen deal remains live

    02 September 2025

    Japanese group is offering $3.5bn for Bermudian non-lifer

  • COTW - European insurers, and their €63bn of investments, that APAC investors/insurers own

    29 August 2025

    Bermuda hit the headlines for M&A by APAC investors- but they've bought up well in Europe, too

  • Sompo positions Aspen's "capital-light" fee-earning risk-packaging unit in its M&A plans

    28 August 2025

    Japanese group spells out reasons it wants to spend $3.5bn on Aspen