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Private credit not systemic risk, Fitch says, but needs close monitoring
13 February 2025As insurers continue to increase allocations to private asset classes
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APAC Weekly - Japan's lifers discover new life business overseas
11 February 2025In adding its name to Japanese insurers doing foreign M&A, Meiji Yasuda Life might also be adding LGIM to its list of outsourcing managers
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Moody's welcomes extra scrutiny by Japan's watchdogs of insurers' private credit
11 November 2024Lifers have liberated capital for re-use, from lowering interest rate risk
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Trends in insurance are feeding into consolidation moves in asset management
26 August 2024Moody's senior vice president Benjamin Serra discusses the latest trends in insurance and asset management and how they feed into each other
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APAC Weekly - How Japan's life insurers reach out for private markets investments
20 August 2024Project finance, property and large-cap loans are among areas cited by Moody's as being of interest to CIOs
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Insurance and asset management - a marriage of convenience?
19 August 2024Insurance Asset Risk analyses recent consolidations and sell-offs of AM units at European insurers
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Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights
17 April 2024The Bank of Japan may have stolen the limelight last month, but insurance CIOs made headlines as well, with eye-catching allocations to non-mainstream assets and emerging managers
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EU Solvency II reforms and a return to low rates could make a sour mix for insurers' solvency ratios, Moody's says
22 March 2024Ratings agency says reforms more reflective of insurers' risks
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Comment - BaFin holds cards (close to its chest) in future of German life-book consolidation
01 February 2024PE part-ownership of Viridium seems to have informed regulator's rejection of Zurich deal
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Direct action - Asset origination moves centre stage in re/insurers' investment plans
20 December 2023From 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