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  • Comment: Athora eyes off PIC for M&A, but is Apollo the 'real story'?

    23 June 2025

    Further PE ownership on the cards for large UK lifer

  • Chart of the Week - Bermuda as a magnet for life policy reserves, backed by private credit

    20 June 2025

    Moody's Ratings report charts an industry "transformed" by reinsurance, and alternative asset manager tie-ups

  • US life insurers offshored $800bn of reserves since 2018, Moody's says

    04 June 2025

    Spurred by private credit investing, some insurers have at least 10% of portfolios with specialised managers

  • Lloyd's syndicates ventured 'beyond the core' in 2024

    01 May 2025

    For most syndicates, 'core fixed income' was the anchor for their portfolios - but that did not prevent some from charting more distant waters with their general accounts in 2024

  • Wellington launches private real estate credit platform, hires four Pimco alumni

    07 March 2025

    Team to start originating senior/subordinated loans in US, but could expand globally

  • 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

  • Private credit markets hit $3trn, report finds

    22 November 2024

    Allianz GI and Pemberton and Apollo among insurance managers informing new research

  • Standard Life concludes two BPAs with Halma

    07 November 2024

    Transactions together worth £250m and secure benefits of 2,200 members

  • 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

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