Fixed income

  • Chart of the week: can PE tame the insurance beast?

    12 December 2025

    What is the share of PE ownership of EU and US insurance industries?

  • Solvency II changes a "meaningful step" for securitised assets' allure, S&P says

    11 December 2025

    Though ratings agency warns changes are unlikely to have a "significant impact" on insurers' appetites

  • AllianzGI announces €1.2bn first close of second private debt secondaries fund

    05 December 2025

    Follows first fund, which saw €1.5bn final close in December 2024

  • Falling asset values and higher default rates key risk to EMEA insurers' investments, Fitch says

    04 December 2025

    Sovereign risk concentration and increased allocations to alts and illiquids also among risks facing European insurers

  • M&G launches active ETF range with £350m backing from Life and AM arms

    03 December 2025

    Initial suite of M&G's active ETFs will be managed by its fixed income business

  • Aviva Investors finances £175m loan for acquisition of central London property

    03 December 2025

    Arora Group is set to convert 102 Petty France into hotel and residential use

  • Investors positive on gilts after UK budget - but sense missed opportunity

    02 December 2025

    Insurers and asset managers concerned about 'back-loading' of fiscal consolidation

  • Nippon Life backs green MBS issuance

    28 November 2025

    From the Japan Housing Finance Agency

  • Barings joins US hotel portfolio refinancing

    27 November 2025

    In joint venture with US real estate business Waterton

  • Axa IM alts issues €500m green bond

    27 November 2025

    Bond pays a coupon of 3.375% and has been given A- rating by Fitch

  • Aviva Investors provides £32m green financing for north London logistics unit

    26 November 2025

    Enfield development being brought forward by Valor Real Estate partners

  • UK debt still relatively positive despite "fragile" market mood ahead of budget day

    25 November 2025

    RLAM and Aberdeen note chancellor has limited (but existing) options, given no tax hike commitments

  • PGIM backs US cold storage portfolio deal with $140.5m financing

    24 November 2025

    Deal supports the acquisition of the six-facility portfolio by Artemis Real Estate Partners

  • Meiji Yasuda Life invests in LatAm climate resilience and blue bonds

    21 November 2025

    Invests US $100m in bond issued by CAF and US $128.91m in bond issued by IDB Investment Corporation

  • Fiscal dominance risk has rarely been higher, Swiss Re warns

    21 November 2025

    But private credit not a source of systemic risk, group chief economist says