Analysis

  • Debt swaps offer exposure to EMs, long-dated maturities, and credit quality, L&G says

    29 April 2026

    IAR speaks to L&G's Jake Harper to find out more

  • German insurers welcome seismic pension reform - with caveats

    27 April 2026

    Germany's Riester Rente system was certainly in need of change, but practitioners aren't wholly convinced what's coming quite fits the bill...

  • Interview: Swiss Life AM on real estate's next cycle

    22 April 2026

    Jan Plückhahn discusses why real estate is entering a new investment cycle

  • China's leading re/insurers use GAs, to 'renew their social licences'

    20 April 2026

    Backing Beijing's five key national projects almost trumped investment yields, in underwriters' 2025 result

  • Oil shocks and policy fog: Insurance investors face a market that won't behave

    15 April 2026

    Insurance investors are balancing geopolitical uncertainty, inflation pressure and a market that appears increasingly disconnected from reality

  • Managing Risk Through Asset-Intensive Reinsurance: A strategic view

    08 April 2026

    By: Jonathan Porter, Executive Vice President, Global Chief Risk Officer, RGA

  • APAC Weekly - Australia's annuity writer(s) wins out in capital framework re-set

    07 April 2026

    Apollo-backed Challenger argued for some significantly different capital framework settings, to those its industry will get, come July

  • Athora: The benefit of patient capital, in private credit

    06 April 2026

    For every €1 the re/insurer has deployed in private credit since 2018, losses have affected €0.007, as David Walker discovers

  • Data centres: The darlings of discussions but not yet of allocation

    02 April 2026

    Insurers' enthusiasm for the sector is tempered by doubts over concentration risk, obsolescence, exits and even whether the assets belong in real estate at all

  • Investing in private markets: Asset-backed finance gaining ground with insurers

    01 April 2026

    Why the asset class is attracting growing attention from insurers, how allocations are evolving in practice, and what risks and constraints investors must navigate