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  • 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

  • Apcia calls for cat bond issue, to "recapitalise and stabilise" FAIR Plan

    22 January 2025

    California's lawmakers introduced legislation on 9 January to let FAIR Plan use bond issue proceeds

  • Insurers' private credit holdings set to grow, Moody's finds

    08 January 2025

    Asset-based finance and private placements most attractive

  • Taiju Life backs IBRD sustainable development bond

    02 January 2025

    Lifer has targeted 15 years' duration in three recent fixed income allocations

  • Moody's downgrade of France, the more things change the more they stay the same

    18 December 2024

    Insurers and their asset managers react to the ramifications of the rating change going forward

  • Insurers to increase exposure to fund finance, Moody's says

    22 October 2024

    Ratings agency sees sublines market supply-demand imbalance as an opening for nontraditional lenders

  • APAC insurers taking materially higher asset risk then US peers, Moody's Ratings finds

    15 October 2024

    Ratings agency used its M'CT analytical tool to compare underwriters across regions

  • APAC weekly - The mixed prognosis for APAC insurers, private credit and outsourcing

    09 July 2024

    It seems patience will be a virtue, for asset managers wanting private credit mandates from APAC insurers

  • Moody's upgrades Hanwha Life for tackling negative spread in legacy book

    12 June 2024

    But agency warns about ongoing "elevated" asset risks with "sizeable exposure" to local project finance and foreign CRE

  • Insurers' private credit appetite grows, Moody's says

    05 June 2024

    Strong asset-liability management "essential" due to asset class's illiquidity