Analysis

  • Outsourcing RT series: Part II, structuring the modern outsourcing deal: insurers expectation

    25 December 2025

    Insurers examine how, together with their asset managers, they are now structuring outsourcing arrangements

  • Real Estate debt - lending high, activity low?

    24 December 2025

    Aviva Investors' head of real estate debt, Gregor Bamert, discusses the reasons RE debt has become increasingly attractive to investors, and why the office is very much alive

  • Munich Re is going big on data centres, what's the secret to their success?

    22 December 2025

    Several deals in the sector have led to the launch of a new fund and now the sky's the limit?

  • Outsourcing roundtable series: Part I, Does the traditional 'mandate model' has a future?

    18 December 2025

    Insurers explore how regulation, private assets and ESG are reshaping outsourcing today and in the decade ahead.

  • Can the Savings and Investments Union transform €33trn of idle wealth into future growth?

    17 December 2025

    Europe is a continent of savers - but not of investors. More than €33trn sits in household financial assets across the EU, much of it in bank deposits earning little or nothing in real terms.

  • Do PE GPs provide insurers good value for money?

    15 December 2025

    Some CIOs may be 'flipping a coin' to find out

  • 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