Archive

  • Comment: Why German pension reform might spell bad news for UCITs managers

    28 April 2026

    With private credit and retail funds, fee structures will diverge for life insurers

  • Insurance buyers forecasting premiums are counselled to examine esoteric and mainstream investment markets

    23 April 2026

    From ILS and ILWs to ETFs, markets can help consumers of insurance predict direction of premiums

  • Institutional investors double ETF use in last five years

    22 April 2026

    Cerulli and Invesco report finds 45% of ETF users plan to increase allocations over next 24 months

  • Data centres: The darlings of discussions but not yet of allocation

    02 April 2026

    Insurers' enthusiasm for the sector is tempered by doubts over concentration risk, obsolescence, exits and even whether the assets belong in real estate at all

  • Rethinking real estate

    26 March 2026

    For years, real estate sat comfortably inside insurers' portfolios: a long-duration asset class offering income, diversification and, in a world of ultra-low interest rates, a relatively easy route to attractive returns.

  • Japan Post launches economic research institute

    03 March 2026

    Tomoo Kinoshita to serve as director when institute launches in April

  • Invesco launches European upper middle market income fund

    14 January 2026

    Private credit vehicle aims to create diversified portfolio of senior secured corporate loans

  • COTW: Some US lifers have concentration risk in CLO collateral managers

    21 November 2025

    Moody's has cautioned, despite collateral managers overall being mostly diversified

  • APAC Weekly: Has Xi Jinping just named his favourite alternative insurance managers?

    28 October 2025

    IAMAC gathers Schroders, Invesco, KKR, Blackstone, BlackRock and GSAM in Beijing

  • A new dawn for Real Estate? A US perspective

    20 October 2025

    Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's Americas conference in September suggest avoiding generalisations in the RE market