Private markets

  • Lifers' liquidity exposure, credit assessment frameworks, and FundedRe on PRA's radar for 2026

    15 January 2026

    Lifers' liquidity exposure, credit assessment frameworks, and FundedRe on PRA's radar for 2026

  • Invesco launches European upper middle market income fund

    14 January 2026

    Private credit vehicle aims to create diversified portfolio of senior secured corporate loans

  • Private markets risk: an unknown unknown, UK Financial Services Regulation Committee says

    12 January 2026

    House of Lords report on systemic risks of private markets is inconclusive and urges BoE to "move more swiftly"

  • Aviva Investors makes private markets team appointments

    08 January 2026

    Callum Fraser joins from Barings as head of private markets equity

  • Barings launches $508m inaugural infra CLO

    08 January 2026

    To grow infrastructure debt's role in manager's private markets strategy

  • Aberdeen foresees selective private markets opportunities in 2026

    06 January 2026

    Privates to provide investors direct access to long-term themes and selective dislocation plays

  • Fitch to watch growing private credit scale and complexity in 2026

    31 December 2025

    Though not a systemic risk, ratings agency notes private credit's expanding connections to wider capital markets and traditional lenders

  • Private credit: "No need to panic" AG Insurance CIO says

    29 December 2025

    While insurers' senior strategist sees no signs of systemic risk; CIO sees no reason to increase exposure in an expensive market

  • EIOPA warns of concentration risks in private credit exposure

    15 December 2025

    European insurers and pension funds are steadily expanding their exposure to private credit

  • 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

  • Investment Accelerator could prompt £10bn extra investment in UK over 10 years, L&G report finds

    11 December 2025

    Study with Oxford Economics also calls for 'whole projects' reform for Solvency UK

  • 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

  • Aberdeen expands strategic insurance team with APAC appointments

    04 December 2025

    Alan Koay and Echo Yang join group launched in October

  • BoE zeroes in on private market risks to insurers and UK financial system

    02 December 2025

    Highlights overreliance on credit rating agencies in place of rigorous due diligence