Analysis

  • The savings illusion: why Europe needs investment, not deposits - and the insurers' role

    10 December 2025

    With the EU pushing to turn savers into investors, Zurich's Alison Martin says insurers are ready to deliver low-cost, consumer-friendly investment products - but only if the regulatory playing field allows it.

  • Chart of the week: a year in review

    09 December 2025

    12 charts, one for each of 2025's months

  • Insurers hopeful Solvency II LTE reform will unlock €100bn RE opportunity

    08 December 2025

    Lifted hurdles to the LTE module could make listed RE more attractive for insurers.

  • Private credit: the feel-good factor?

    03 December 2025

    Part IV of a private credit story, following a Kishōtenketsu narrative

  • Insurance sector the "natural home" of productive assets, L&G says

    01 December 2025

    Managing director of UK PRT John Towner on the 2025 PRT market

  • Private credit: are headline news and underlying performance one and the same?

    26 November 2025

    Part III of a private credit story, following a Kishōtenketsu narrative

  • Pool Re's CIO and CFO on the government-backed terrorism reinsurer's portfolio priorities

    24 November 2025

    Rich Roberts took over in both roles six months ago, and talks to Insurance Asset Risk about the firm's freedom to invest in areas SII insurers can't go

  • Private credit: an evolution of skills, a revolution of relations

    19 November 2025

    Part II of a private credit story, following a Kishōtenketsu narrative

  • Tech bubble? Not so fast

    17 November 2025

    Bumps in the road are to be expected in revolutions, instead you must think long-term

  • Bringing liquidity to the world of private credit

    13 November 2025

    Trading platform HedgeBay is seeing brisk business trading funds holding AI, gold and rare-earths. Will private credit soon follow? David Walker spoke with its CFO to find out