Archive

  • PIC enters affordable housing market with £50m deal

    13 November 2023

    Partnership with London Square Group plans to build 125 homes in Kingston-upon-Thames, London, by November 2025

  • PIC invests £195m in Glasgow

    04 December 2019

    The loan will help fund the city council’s equal pay settlement

  • The risks and rewards of leveraged finance: senior secured loans

    15 December 2017

    With European insurers showing increasing interest in allocating to senior secured loans – a more popular investment for US counterparts – David Turner explores how and why insurers either side of the Atlantic are approaching the asset class.

  • Brexit the great infrastructure unknown

    18 October 2017

    With huge competition and a small pool of opportunities, infrastructure investment is not easy in the UK. And things are likely to be even less stable post-Brexit. But could the divorce from the EU actually be a boon for insurance investors? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • PIC buys £60m social housing bonds

    19 September 2017

    Social housing investments nearing £1bn

  • Wraps - a gift to infrastructure investment?

    24 March 2017

    Insurance 'wraps' can boost the credit rating on infrastructure debt to make the asset more attractive to investors, especially underwriters grappling with Solvency II. Christopher Cundy reports

  • PIC invests £93m in Welsh housing

    13 March 2017

    Deal structured around credit strength of the housing associations

  • PIC funds more student housing in London

    04 January 2017

    Finances construction with £87m index-linked loan

  • PIC invests £100m in Thames Tunnel

    16 June 2016

    Insurer capital will fund sewer development