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Chart of the Week: Asset managers and insurers 'partner up' in $60bn M&A game
07 March 2025Historically manager/insurer deals were ' you run my assets, I pay you fees'. Some deal structures today are almost unrecognisable to those bygone times
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Private credit, insurance now make up over half Blackstone, Apollo, KKR and Carlyle portfolio, says Moody's
22 January 2025A decade ago, these classes were just one-third of those alternative managers' businesses
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The NAIC is cooking up a hearty bowl of reform, how should US insurers prepare for the meal?
20 January 2025From risk-based capital to GEMS and the Insurer Investment Regulation Framework, 2025 could be a busy year
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It's complicated: Avalanche of reforms test US insurers relationship with NAIC
07 October 2024US insurers are currently facing an avalanche of new regulations to assimilate into their practice
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The thorny regulatory issue of PE and Bermudian re/insurers
23 September 2024The BMA has its sights set on parent-originated illiquid investments in the GAs of Bermuda's underwriters
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Chart of the Week - Are PE owners stripping capital out of Bermudian re/insurers they own?
20 September 2024Any insurance regulator's concern is an owner who takes more than it gives, in capital terms
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IAR North America 24: Regulatory asset scrutiny inevitable
16 September 2024But regulator's approach encouraging and constructive, insurers tell the audience
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Chart of the Week - Do PE-linked Lloyd's syndicates take more investment risk?
12 April 2024With PE links to insurers in the sights of regulators worldwide, we investigate the fair value hierarchy of some at Lloyd's
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Fee schedules in insurance IMAs - the hard sell
05 February 2024From the most straightforward to some pock-marked by caveats and preconditions, investment provisions in investment management agreements span the full spectrum of complexity
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Comment - BaFin holds cards (close to its chest) in future of German life-book consolidation
01 February 2024PE part-ownership of Viridium seems to have informed regulator's rejection of Zurich deal