Archive

  • Comment - Will insurers want their private credit funds 'gated'? The answer might surprise you

    03 March 2026

    Private credit funds are starting to hit the headlines....

  • Kuvare outlines outsourcing details with Blue Owl, and mid-market loan purchases

    03 March 2026

    Kuvare Life Re and various other group lifers have delegated work with independent Blue Owl

  • Unipol's BTP exposure drops below one-third of portfolio

    16 January 2025

    Morningstar DBRS has called the 30% allocation "significant", however

  • Rome to tax unit-linked products in bid to fund its €30bn budget

    18 October 2024

    Georgia Meloni wants Italy's insurers and banks to contribute about €3.5bn to government's next budget

  • COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Benelux insurers praise outsourcing partners

    05 July 2024

    As Benelux CIOs generally got better news in 2023 and 2022, back-slapping for mandate managers seemed the order of the day

  • Brace! Brace! Tailspin in US variable annuity insurer shares revealed

    28 January 2022

    Airline stocks landed hard as the pandemic unfolded - but VA insurers plunged close behind

  • Private rating spike highlights concerns on insurer rating arbitrage

    27 January 2022

    US insurers' privately rated assets jumped 96% in last two years, NAIC finds

  • Canadian life insurers sail through pandemic with minimal investment losses

    18 August 2021

    Largest Canadian insurer made money in last 18 months, according to DBRS Morningstar

  • Europe's affiliates occupy half of top places for fund-based assets

    02 October 2019

    Affiliates' €2.2trn in funds is now nearly one third of total fund assets managed in Europe

  • Insurance affiliates hold their own at top table of Europe's asset managers

    30 September 2019

    Many insurers’ affiliated managers have been sent out by their parents to gather third-party assets in recent years – with varying success. The managers might put their affiliation to an underwriting group forward as a credential to win more insurance mandates, but a European CIO questions whether this can be a universal truth. David Walker reports