Archive

  • Chart of the Week - Why Germany's 'silent life book run-off' could be a rainmaker for BlackRock

    04 April 2025

    Fitch estimates €100bn of German life books still up for consolidation

  • Fitch predicts boost for Viridium's asset management arm from BlackRock deal

    04 April 2025

    Asset manager is in consortium buying Cinven out of life consolidator

  • T&D Holdings to pay JPY 120bn as part of Viridium buyer consortium

    21 March 2025

    Japanese group will hold 29.9% of the life book consolidator if the deal is allowed

  • 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

  • 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

  • The thorny regulatory issue of PE and Bermudian re/insurers

    23 September 2024

    The BMA has its sights set on parent-originated illiquid investments in the GAs of Bermuda's underwriters

  • Chart of the Week - Are PE owners stripping capital out of Bermudian re/insurers they own?

    20 September 2024

    Any insurance regulator's concern is an owner who takes more than it gives, in capital terms

  • Bermudian insurers reveal $67bn outsourcing pot for Blackstone in 2023

    31 July 2024

    Corebridge and Resolution had transferred immense assets to the alternatives manager by last year

  • Fortitude Re appoints CFO

    25 July 2024

    Greta Hager joins from Mass Mutual

  • Fortitude Re appoints senior associate for investments

    09 July 2024

    Mitch Mueller joins from Partner Re