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• 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

• APAC Week - Is Sompo about to land (yet) another overseas M&A in Aspen?

  26 August 2025

  After the Americas-haul by Japanese groups so far, 'looks like you're gonna need a bigger boat'...

• Lloyd's syndicates ventured 'beyond the core' in 2024

  01 May 2025

  For most syndicates, 'core fixed income' was the anchor for their portfolios - but that did not prevent some from charting more distant waters with their general accounts in 2024

• Chart of the Week: Asset managers and insurers 'partner up' in $60bn M&A game

  07 March 2025

  Historically manager/insurer deals were ' you run my assets, I pay you fees'. Some deal structures today are almost unrecognisable to those bygone times

• Private credit, insurance now make up over half Blackstone, Apollo, KKR and Carlyle portfolio, says Moody's

  22 January 2025

  A decade ago, these classes were just one-third of those alternative managers' businesses

• CIO interview: Aspen looking for duration, quality and... more asset managers

  17 October 2024

  Aspen's chief investment officer for US and Bermuda, Thomas Preis met with Insurance Asset Risk in New York to discuss the Bermuda-headquartered group's investment strategy to move up in quality, and further diversify its asset classes and outsourcing asset managers

• Chart of the Week - Are PE owners stripping capital out of Bermudian re/insurers they own?

  20 September 2024

  Any insurance regulator's concern is an owner who takes more than it gives, in capital terms

• IAR North America 2024: Geopolitics and recession top of audience's risk concerns

  18 September 2024

  Panellists at Insurance Risk and Capital Americas 2024 react