Analysis

  • Welcome back from the Christmas that changed everything

    05 January 2026

    The risk of an AI bubble seemed to be dominating insurers thoughts coming in 2026, but then Christmas happened

  • Outsourcing RT series: Part III, Outsourcing and private markets assets - a new world for outsourcing?

    01 January 2026

    Insurers explore the potential impact of insurance CIOs increased appetite for non-mainstream, manager-originated assets, on the outsourcing agreements

  • How did insurers survive a rocky year on the "surprise index"?

    29 December 2025

    Wellington talks interest rate fluctuations, geopolitics and the new bogeyman of the moment - the threat of an AI bubble

  • 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.