Archive

  • 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

  • Private credit: an evolution of skills, a revolution of relations

    19 November 2025

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

  • US lifers' appetite accelerating for privately-rated and unrated FI, Moody's Ratings finds

    14 November 2025

    Athene US has second lowest proportional exposure among large peers

  • A private credit story, following a Kishōtenketsu narrative

    12 November 2025

    A panel at Insurance Asset Risk's 2025 Bermuda conference reveals the benefits, skills needed, risks and future of private credit investing

  • Chart of the Week - Might insurance CIOs one day 'run out of assets to buy'?

    26 September 2025

    The investment landscape's a richer place, if you include private markets, proponents of directly-originated assets say

  • Comment: Athora eyes off PIC for M&A, but is Apollo the 'real story'?

    23 June 2025

    Further PE ownership on the cards for large UK lifer

  • US life insurers offshored $800bn of reserves since 2018, Moody's says

    04 June 2025

    Spurred by private credit investing, some insurers have at least 10% of portfolios with specialised managers

  • 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