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  • Time and experience are making CIO's plans for private assets much more intricate

    19 March 2025

    According to Nuveen's latest EQuilibrium Global Institutional Investor Survey, insurers are getting much savvier at building private markets portfolios, but could anything blow them of course?

  • Market predictions for 2025 largely reversed already, Muzinich and Co says

    14 March 2025

    Trump likely to keep up with tariff brinkmanship, leading to a difficult few months for investors, Ian Horn tells Insurance Asset Risk

  • Parallel lending opportunities becoming more attractive to insurers, Muzinich and Co says

    22 July 2024

    Investments in-line with the focus Solvency II has placed on ratings and duration

  • BofE holds rates but potential for August cut has insurers eyeing private credit

    20 June 2024

    Demand also rising due to appeal of portfolio diversification

  • To go short or to go long? That is the question on CIOs' minds

    24 April 2023

    Unlike previous years where CIOs focused on capital preservation and the hunt for yield, 2023 will be marked by a focus on managing volatility and the duration gap.

  • Generali Investments Partners hires head of private debt

    06 July 2022

    Sandrine Richard will join from Muzinich

  • Private debt blues

    19 July 2017

    Private debt seems the perfect fit for insurance investors with its long-term horizon, better-than-average returns and graspable risk for those used to dealing with fixed income. Yet the regulatory stance on the asset has not been overly clear so far. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Direct lending - an attractive source of long-term return

    An allocation into direct lending can provide insurers a diversified source of higher, less volatile returns over a longer-term time horizon

  • Insurance CIOs, regulators and investment leaders join IAR line up

    22 March 2017

    ABI chief Hugh Savill will discuss effect of changing regulation on insurers' investments