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Chart of the Week - European CFOs' ongoing appetite for private markets investments
16 May 2025From infra to private credit and PE, CFOs' hunger shows little sign of abating
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APAC Weekly: Super long-term JGBs for 'super-long' citizens
22 April 2025Moody's Ratings has mapped out allocation patterns, including to private assets, by Japan's life sector
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Japanese lifers looking for a beacon in the equity markets storm
16 April 2025With trade wars sending markets haywire, and equities being the highest risk in insurers' investment portfolios, investment and risk teams are holding firm, in the hope of a window of blue sky
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Fitch predicts boost for Viridium's asset management arm from BlackRock deal
04 April 2025Asset manager is in consortium buying Cinven out of life consolidator
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Chart of the Week: Asset managers and insurers 'partner up' in $60bn M&A game
07 March 2025Historically manager/insurer deals were ' you run my assets, I pay you fees'. Some deal structures today are almost unrecognisable to those bygone times
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Private credit to drive growth for US life insurers amid rising regulatory scrutiny, Moody's say
03 March 2025AM-backed insurers tend to hold more ABS and CLOs, report finds
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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