Archive

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers may not 'roar' in overseas M&A deals, but increasingly they want the lion's share

    24 March 2025

    It would be misplaced to say the Japanese want back-row seats in global expansion

  • Chart of the Week - China Life AM calls for more 'patient capital' in private asset- and equities markets

    21 March 2025

    Affiliate praises various facets of foreign investment markets, and key players in them, from Warren Buffett to KKR

  • A 'Happy Future' for Viridium and its new owners including BlackRock?

    20 March 2025

    Cinven is selling out of German life consolidator to insurers and manager, in €3.5bn deal

  • China Life AM maps out sizes of local private asset markets by 2024

    19 March 2025

    Affiliate says markets have grown, but China still has "few alternative management giants like Blackstone and KKR"

  • Chart of the Week: Asset managers and insurers 'partner up' in $60bn M&A game

    07 March 2025

    Historically manager/insurer deals were ' you run my assets, I pay you fees'. Some deal structures today are almost unrecognisable to those bygone times

  • LGAH appoints COO as delivery of affordable homes expands

    18 February 2025

    Peter Cross joins from Blackstone

  • Private credit, insurance now make up over half Blackstone, Apollo, KKR and Carlyle portfolio, says Moody's

    22 January 2025

    A decade ago, these classes were just one-third of those alternative managers' businesses

  • Nippon Life flags greater outsourcing to improve investment returns

    24 December 2024

    Japanese lifer will add about $85bn to portfolio if Resolution purchase proceeds

  • Nippon Life can manage risks of funded re after Resolution M&A, S&P Global Ratings predicts

    16 December 2024

    But ratings agency expects parties to deal to watch regulatory developments closely

  • Carlyle-owned asset manager scores massive win in outsourcing by Nippon Life

    16 December 2024

    TCW could win mandate worth up to $3.3bn from lifer