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  • Where next for European private credit?

    09 March 2026

    Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's Investing in Private Markets conference single out CRE lending as a pocket of opportunity and highlight importance of credit rating fundamentals

  • Insurance Asset Risk's investing in private markets 2026 round-up

    25 February 2026

    Highlights from the day's discussions

  • Private Markets 2026: More complexity needed as IG market tightens, Phoenix Group says

    25 February 2026

    Bilateral and club deals are appealing depending on the partner

  • Purpose built student accommodation: Smart bet or long-term risk?

    16 July 2025

    More and more UK insurers and their asset managers are investing in PBSA, but reports from the US suggest the market can be a distinctly mixed bag

  • IAR EMEA 24 - Matching adjustment reform, big bang or damp squib?

    27 June 2024

    At Insurance Asset Risk's recent EMEA 2024 conference in London, panellists sat down to discuss some of the main regulatory issues facing insurers this year from reforms to Solvency UK to the ever-proliferating amount of ESG regulation

  • IAR EMEA 2024: Solvency UK consultation welcome, but reforms could go further

    10 June 2024

    Reforms likely to foster an investment evolution rather than revolution

  • Video: Managing credit as an asset class

    17 August 2022

    Phoenix's Bariletti discuss credit strategy in current volatile environment

  • Phoenix continues expansion of direct illiquid portfolio

    11 August 2021

    Sourcing £1.3bn of illiquid assets in H1

  • Phoenix Group hires head of infrastructure

    02 July 2021

    Manual Dusina joins from Scottish Widows

  • Phoenix Group creates chief credit officer role for illiquid asset expansion

    09 June 2021

    Brought in Michaela Bariletti for inhouse ratings of private credit and illiquids