07 May 2026

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

Analysis

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
27 April 2026

German insurers welcome seismic pension reform - with caveats

Germany's Riester Rente system was certainly in need of change, but practitioners aren't wholly convinced what's coming quite fits the bill...
22 April 2026

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

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

News

  • 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

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

    05 May 2026

  • Rothesay completes £160m buy-in with Bakkavor

    05 May 2026

  • PIC's Groves jumps ship, becomes CIO at L&G

    05 May 2026

  • AIG shares move upwards as insurer reins in private credit exposure

    04 May 2026

  • Northwestern Mutual boots fintech fund

    04 May 2026

  • Aviva Investors sells two UK retail outlets in pivot to housing and urban logistics

    01 May 2026

  • Chart of the Week: UK PRA drops the pleasantries with funded re

    01 May 2026

  • PRA's funded re plans won't deter lifers using AIR for accessing esoteric assets

    01 May 2026

  • La Caisse acquires blood analysis and diagnostics business

    30 April 2026

  • Mirova invests $15m in Indian EV battery business

    30 April 2026

  • Aberdeen appoints new multi-asset and private market solutions heads

    30 April 2026

  • PRA plans for funded re part of global 'regulatory convergence', lawyers argue

    30 April 2026

  • Comment - Is private credit exposure making US life insurers hedge funds' new 'Big Short'?

    29 April 2026

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Most Read
  1. NAIC updates Washington on private credit, offshore life reinsurance and business models
  2. Moody's finds "relatively little exposure" to US private credit concerns at UK and European re/insurers
  3. SFCR season: How equity hedges helped some, but not all, Scandinavian insurers in 2025
  4. Chart of the Week - A decade of GA investing under Solvency II
  5. Candidates seeking industry watchdog role in California split on climate change
  6. While bond markets stress equities still spy brighter horizon, S&P says
  7. M&G warns of data and governance strain as private market investments increase
  8. Europe's GA edges tantalisingly close to €7trn
  9. The proof is in the premium - private market assets on trial
  10. Fitch predicts "material reduction" in asset-intensive reinsurance under PRA plans

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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 - 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

  • Chart of the week: Chinese state insurers' investment returns jump after year of equity push

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

  • Aberdeen shuffles fixed income division

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

  • PIC's Groves jumps ship, becomes CIO at L&G

  • Aberdeen appoints new multi-asset and private market solutions heads

Regulation

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

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

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

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

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?