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Falling asset values and higher default rates key risk to EMEA insurers' investments, Fitch says
04 December 2025Sovereign risk concentration and increased allocations to alts and illiquids also among risks facing European insurers
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Aberdeen expands strategic insurance team with APAC appointments
04 December 2025Alan Koay and Echo Yang join group launched in October
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BoE zeroes in on private market risks to insurers and UK financial system
02 December 2025Highlights overreliance on credit rating agencies in place of rigorous due diligence
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Fitch details US alt manager tie-up and private credit risk facing European insurers
21 November 2025Ratings agency highlights "increased structural complexity and interconnectedness" of asset class
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COTW: Some US lifers have concentration risk in CLO collateral managers
21 November 2025Moody's has cautioned, despite collateral managers overall being mostly diversified
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Fiscal dominance risk has rarely been higher, Swiss Re warns
21 November 2025But private credit not a source of systemic risk, group chief economist says
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Neuberger Berman hits $7.3bn final close on private debt fund
11 November 2025Investor base comprises several global institutions, including insurers, based in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia
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Alt IM expansion in Lloyd's syndicates and US casualty sidecars raise risks, Fitch says
07 November 2025Longer‑duration premium flows are being invested in higher‑yield private assets managed by alt IMs
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BII plans fund to encourage UK lifers to support EM climate finance
05 November 2025Opportunities for long-term and predictable rates of return on investment widespread, COP30 hears
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Guardian forms $5bn PE partnership with Hamilton Lane
04 November 2025Lifer takes equity in PE manager and commits to invest $500m per year in PE with Hamilton Lane for next 10 years
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Entries open for Insurance Asset Risk Awards 2026 - UK and Europe
03 November 2025Awards aim to recognise those working across the insurance investment value chain
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Insurers to continue shifting allocations to private markets, SLC Management research finds
31 October 2025Private infra equity comes top in survey, with growth in it and private RE equity to be spearheaded by non-US insurers
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"We've learned the lessons of 2008" M&G tells Parliamentary private markets committee
29 October 2025Asset management CEO Joseph Pinto tells committee financial sector more cautious now compared with the GFC, amidst private markets concern
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US life annuity underwriters have doubled private credit holdings since 2014
22 October 2025AM Best says risk management, amid continued growth, is "critical"
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UK investors launch Sterling 20 group as step up from Mansion House Accord
20 October 2025Office for Investment will support the creation of a pipeline of opportunities
- M&G JV with Asian pension fund to invest £1bn in UK housing
- Insurance sector the "natural home" of productive assets, L&G says
- Barings acquires Sydney office building for AU $360m
- BoE zeroes in on private market risks to insurers and UK financial system
- Meiji Yasuda expands backing of regional revitalisation startup
- Chart of the Week - The rise and rise of (small) insurers investing in private assets
- Insurance Development Forum reaches first close on Infrastructure Resilience Development Fund
- Aviva Investors finances £175m loan for acquisition of central London property
- Private credit: are headline news and underlying performance one and the same?
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