Mansion House Accord signatories held £11.1bn in UK private markets at end-2025
Signatories had committed a further £3bn to UK assets, but 11 were uncertain about the pipeline's depth.
20 October 2026·3 min read
Market Analysis
35 articlesIMF says insurers and pension funds have nearly doubled their illiquid share as liquidity mismatches worsen
Urgent cash needs during stress may force insurers and pension funds to sell their most liquid assets, the IMF says.
13 October 2026·3 min read
Top European non-life insurers averaged about 22% return on equity with lower solvency, Howden Re finds
Howden Re says underwriting explained performance differences roughly twice as well as capital structure did.
18 October 2026·2 min read
Investors representing more than €9tn renew call to keep EU methane rules on schedule
IIGCC says the appeal comes amid consideration of a one-year delay to monitoring requirements for fossil-fuel imports.
6 October 2026·2 min read
PIC calls for Singapore-style planning pilots in UK cities
The insurer models a potential £6.4 billion cut in delivery costs for homes permitted from 2024 to mid-2025.
12 October 2026·2 min read
70% of asset owners in global study expect AI to become foundational to portfolio infrastructure within two years
Participating asset owners cited data quality and standardisation most often among AI challenges, with 75% naming it.
13 October 2026·2 min read
SCOR study puts investments and cash at 62% of European captive assets
SCOR says captives' counterparty risk might stem from intra-group loans and cash-pooling schemes.
14 October 2026·2 min read
US insurer returns slip to 0.1% after September decline, Clearwater reports
Insurer portfolio duration fell from 4.8 years in May 2026 to 4.5 years at September-end, Clearwater reports.
14 October 2026·1 min read
MetLife poll: 95% of DB sponsors with de-risking goals intend full liability divestment
Some 55% of the sponsors polled expected to complete divestment within two to five years of the July survey.
7 October 2026·3 min read
Swiss Re links retirement self-management to growing advice needs and life-insurance distribution competition
Three private equity-backed US intermediary groups completed more than 300 publicly announced acquisitions from 2017 to 2025, the study finds.
8 October 2026·2 min read