11 May 2026

What's on insurance CFOs' minds in Europe?

Analysis

07 May 2026

SFCR season: How equity hedges helped some, but not all, Scandinavian insurers in 2025

The timing, structure and extent of downside protection has featured in SFCRs of many Scandinavian insurers
06 May 2026

The proof is in the premium - private market assets on trial

Insurers are hungry for private market assets, but they're expecting managers to provide more data and proof of illiquidity premiums than ever before, according to recent research
04 May 2026

Time for insurers to consider value-add real estate lending strategies?

Sunlife's asset manager think so
30 April 2026

SFCR season: The UK matching adjustment's heavyweights and their investment portfolios

Last year capped off a successful opening decade for the matching adjustment, helping its UK users save a whopping £720.6bn worth of regulatory capital. David Walker examines how they did it
29 April 2026

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

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

News

  • asr short-term climate targets approved by SBTi

    12 May 2026

  • APAC Weekly - 'Would you like some crypto with that?'

    12 May 2026

  • M&G appoints head of infra debt and private placements

    12 May 2026

  • Internal model push by Allianz Benelux to aid portfolio diversification

    12 May 2026

  • MEAG closes financing of German battery-electric train acquisition

    11 May 2026

  • AllianzGI expands EM debt team

    11 May 2026

  • FSB warns of "particularly aggressive" buying of private credit by PE-backed insurers

    11 May 2026

  • Alte Leipziger Leben announces German retirement savings product - seven months early

    11 May 2026

  • Chart of the Week - A decade of GA investing under Solvency II

    08 May 2026

  • Moody's finds "relatively little exposure" to US private credit concerns at UK and European re/insurers

    08 May 2026

  • NAIC updates Washington on private credit, offshore life reinsurance and business models

    08 May 2026

  • M&G warns of data and governance strain as private market investments increase

    08 May 2026

  • While bond markets stress equities still spy brighter horizon, S&P says

    07 May 2026

  • Candidates seeking industry watchdog role in California split on climate change

    07 May 2026

  • Europe's GA edges tantalisingly close to €7trn

    07 May 2026

  • Take the good years but prepare for the bad on private credit, Viridium Gruppe says

    06 May 2026

  • Fitch predicts "material reduction" in asset-intensive reinsurance under PRA plans

    06 May 2026

  • Fokoku Life issues ten commandments to avert staff misconduct

    06 May 2026

  • Legal & General wins £300m mandate from Queen's University Belfast

    05 May 2026

  • Generali Real Estate leads €330m refinancing of Four Seasons Madrid

    05 May 2026

  • Aberdeen shuffles fixed income division

    05 May 2026

  • J.P. Morgan Asset Management appoints new UK insurance solutions head

    05 May 2026

  • APAC Weekly - Temporary insurers step up to fill a Gulf in coverage

    05 May 2026

Market Insights

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Ready, Steady, CLO: Solvency II Reform & the Case for AAA CLOs

From January 2027, Solvency II capital charges on senior (AAA) CLO tranches will fall materially, improving capital efficiency. This reform creates a timely opportunity for European insurers to enhance public fixed income returns and strengthen portfolio risk profiles.
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  2. NAIC updates Washington on private credit, offshore life reinsurance and business models
  3. Moody's finds "relatively little exposure" to US private credit concerns at UK and European re/insurers
  4. Chart of the Week - A decade of GA investing under Solvency II
  5. FSB warns of "particularly aggressive" buying of private credit by PE-backed insurers
  6. What's on insurance CFOs' minds in Europe?
  7. M&G warns of data and governance strain as private market investments increase
  8. AllianzGI expands EM debt team
  9. SFCR season: How equity hedges helped some, but not all, Scandinavian insurers in 2025
  10. Candidates seeking industry watchdog role in California split on climate change

Upcoming conferences

11 June 2026, 8:00 AM

Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2026

Debate the key risks, challenges, and opportunities facing insurers today. London, UK.
24 June 2026, 8:00 AM

Insurance Asset Risk Asia 2026

Exploring insurer investment and asset allocation strategies amidst market volatility and rising interest rates. Hong Kong
16 September 2026, 8:00 AM

Insurance Risk & Capital Americas 2026

The original CROs and CIOs hub for the insurance industry
14 October 2026, 8:00 AM

Insurance Risk & Capital Bermuda 2026

The leading event for CEOs, CROs, CIOs and Chief Actuaries at re/insurers with an interest in Bermuda

Spotlight: Private markets

25 February 2026

Insurance Asset Risk's investing in private markets 2026 round-up

Highlights from the day's discussions
23 February 2026

NAIC to be "laser focused" on insurer's changing appetites for private and alternative assets

New NAIC president Scott A. White has set out his plans for the year in a series of recent interviews
18 February 2026

How to stress-test €600bn worth of private markets assets

As Europe's regulators mull what stressors are best to test a private markets portfolio, managers have some thoughts...
27 March 2026

Insurance Risk Data: Private market and self-originated investing by Europe's insurers

Analysts at Insurance Risk Data share key insights from their latest research on private market and self-originated investing among European insurers

Focus on Asia Pacific

More on Asia Pacific
20 April 2026

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

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

  • APAC Weekly - 'Would you like some crypto with that?'

  • APAC Weekly - Temporary insurers step up to fill a Gulf in coverage

  • Francisco Partners' tech fund wins outsourcing mandate from Fubon Life in Taiwan

  • Mirova invests $15m in Indian EV battery business

  • M&G acquires JPY 19.4bn of Tokyo resi assets

  • APAC Weekly - Could APAC bushfires leap into the urban landscape?

  • Brookfield wins AI infrastructure outsourcing work for life firm in Taiwan

  • Sumitomo Life invests in local stablecoin's developer

  • Sony Life outsources local impact investing to local manager

  • Nippon Life uses Nippon Capital LP to invest in daycare software developer

  • AllianzGI announces $270m close of APAC infra credit fund

  • Japan Earthquake Reinsurance Co puts JPY 3bn behind earthquake resilience bonds

Outsourcing

  • The proof is in the premium - private market assets on trial

  • Legal & General wins £300m mandate from Queen's University Belfast

  • Time for insurers to consider value-add real estate lending strategies?

  • Aberdeen takes £1bn credit mandate for UK's Flood Re

People

  • M&G appoints head of infra debt and private placements

  • AllianzGI expands EM debt team

  • What's on insurance CFOs' minds in Europe?

  • Aberdeen shuffles fixed income division

Regulation

  • Internal model push by Allianz Benelux to aid portfolio diversification

  • Alte Leipziger Leben announces German retirement savings product - seven months early

  • M&G warns of data and governance strain as private market investments increase

  • Candidates seeking industry watchdog role in California split on climate change

Systems/Data

  • Winners of the 2026 Insurance Asset Risk EMEA awards announced

  • NAIC plans March launch for AI assessment tool

  • Generali Deutschland selects Clearwater Analytics to help scale €40bn unit-linked fund business

  • Insurance Asset Risk survey: US debt levels - should CIOs be worried?