Archive

• 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

• The thorny regulatory issue of PE and Bermudian re/insurers

  23 September 2024

  The BMA has its sights set on parent-originated illiquid investments in the GAs of Bermuda's underwriters

• 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

• Direct action - Asset origination moves centre stage in re/insurers' investment plans

  20 December 2023

  From backing BPAs to enhancing investment yields, directly-originated assets, and the managers able to source them, are finding favour among re/insurers worldwide, David Walker discovers

• Catalina Holdings CIO moves to Prudential

  01 September 2022

  Don Guo completes the round of CIO musical chairs triggered by Zurich's CIO resignation last year

• Modellers search how much worse COVID could get

  25 June 2021

  European insurers describe pandemic stress tests in 2020 SFCRs

• Catalina's ACR partners with Clearwater for investment data services

  10 August 2020

  Partnership includes full handling of ACR's alternative investments

• Catalina Holdings appoints group CIO from Munich Re manager

  14 May 2020

  Philipp Waldstein joins as reinsurer expands into Asia

• Guardian Insurance CIO Thomas Sorell to step down in February

  09 January 2020

  He will join Catalina Holdings along with Bruce Hemphill