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7 Oct

MS Amlin renews Phoenix Re, lifts collateralised capacity above US$90m

Investment Strategy

7 Oct

M&G brings back Duncan Batty to lead Real Estate Finance

6 Oct

New York Life Investment Management leads Octane’s $1.4bn forward-flow facility

New York Life Investment Management MetLife region-us

6 Oct

EIOPA turns up scrutiny of private equity-backed insurers’ illiquid investments

Regulation & Policy

EIOPA Apollo Global Management Athene Athora

5 Oct

Barings appoints Sloan Sutta as global head of asset-based finance

5 Oct

Prismic agrees to reinsure about $5bn of reserves on Prudential’s Japanese whole life policies

Prismic Life PGIM region-apac

2 Oct

Generali agrees €150m deal for about 9.9% of Cajamar holding entity BCC

2 Oct

Zurich completes Beazley acquisition and expects at least $1bn of one-off capital extraction

Zurich Insurance Group Lloyd’s insurance market

1 Oct

Nuveen completes Schroders acquisition, with Schroders to run separately for 12–18 months

1 Oct

Aegon AM to transfer management of €26bn in fiduciary assets to Van Lanschot Kempen

Aegon Aegon Asset Management

1 Oct

Liberty Mutual Investments gains option to deploy up to $750m with Orion Infrastructure Capital

Liberty Mutual Investments Orion Infrastructure Capital region-us

30 Sept

French life insurer PREPAR-VIE picks Clearwater for general-account and unit-linked operations

Clearwater Analytics

30 Sept

Bank of England’s FPC judges parts of private credit vulnerable to tighter financing conditions

Bank of England

30 Sept

Cash-flow design and equity placement test private-credit managers targeting UK matching adjustment, says Macfarlanes

Prudential Regulation Authority Legal & General

30 Sept

EIOPA to check whether insurers’ ORSAs capture private-assets and cyber risks in 2027

Regulation & Policy

29 Sept

Clara agrees transfer of Arco pension scheme with about £135m of assets

PRT & Longevity

28 Sept

NYLIM agrees to buy majority stake in US residential-credit manager Invictus

New York Life Investment Management Invictus Capital Partners

24 Sept

NAIC tells Warren insurers will standardise private-investment reporting from year-end 2026 statements

Elizabeth Warren NAIC

24 Sept

Achmea plans buy-out of GE pension fund’s Dutch section covering about 1,200 members

PRT & Longevity

De Nederlandsche Bank

23 Sept

EU supervisors call for proactive monitoring of private-credit risks despite limited aggregate exposures

23 Sept

MEAG and ENERCON launch wind-farm debt fund for Munich Re and other investors

ESG & Sustainability

23 Sept

LCP model puts typical-scheme buy-in pricing 3% better against gilts this year

Market Analysis

LCP Legal & General Standard Life Athora

22 Sept

Just Group’s regulatory solvency coverage falls to 171% at half-year

22 Sept

NFU Mutual picks Bloomberg and Clearwater for front-to-back investment operating model

Clearwater Analytics

22 Sept

MetLife and Scottish Widows among senior lenders as TPE battery-electric train deal reaches financial close

MetLife Scottish Widows abrdn

21 Sept

Irish Life completes €165m Greencore pension buy-out covering deferred members

PRT & Longevity

21 Sept

Marsh barometer: 38% of asset owners plan cash increases, up from 9% in 2025

Market Analysis

Marsh Investments and Retirement

21 Sept

M&G property fund opens a €3 billion note programme with its first green bond

ESG & Sustainability

M&G Fitch Ratings

20 Sept

Sun Life ties C$1.5bn infrastructure equity plan to Insurance Companies Act amendments

Investment Strategy

19 Sept

PIC’s government bond holdings rise as corporate bonds fall and private investments stand still

Pension Insurance Corporation Athora Apollo Global Management

18 Sept

Bank of England slows gilt unwind to zero by 2034 and pauses sales auctions

Bank of England

17 Sept

Athora’s first-half operating capital generation rises to €648 million

17 Sept

Allianz draws mainly on German policyholder funds for Scaleup Europe Fund investment

Investment Strategy

16 Sept

EIOPA backs supervised private-credit growth, doubts Solvency II changes alone will drive securitisation investment

16 Sept

Canada Life commits $10bn over five years to Canadian infrastructure and nation-building projects

Investment Strategy

16 Sept

Financial fragmentation could amplify insurers’ balance-sheet stress in a market shock, Geneva Association finds

Geneva Association

15 Sept

Annuity providers put £22.8bn into UK productive assets in first two years of £100bn pledge

Market Analysis

Aviva Canada Life Just Group Legal & General

14 Sept

Fitch puts Bermuda at 85 per cent of US life insurers’ $1.3 trillion offshore reserves

Market Analysis

Fitch Ratings Prudential Regulation Authority EIOPA NAIC

13 Sept

Private equity deal and exit counts fall to lowest since Q3 2021, Schroders Capital finds

Market Analysis

13 Sept

Warren gives NAIC until 24 September to answer on insurers’ affiliated assets and private credit

Elizabeth Warren NAIC Prudential Regulation Authority Bank of England

13 Sept

L&G fund makes first towers acquisition in €669m VodafoneZiggo deal

Legal & General

11 Sept

About 55 Dutch pension funds and APF compartments intend to convert to the new pension system after 1 January 2027, DNB says

Regulation & Policy

De Nederlandsche Bank Athora

10 Sept

PRA proposes about 10% capital charge on funded-reinsurance buy-ins written after September

PRT & Longevity

Prudential Regulation Authority LCP Legal & General Aon

9 Sept

Pacific Life Re books its first Hong Kong asset-intensive deal

Pacific Life Re Milliman

9 Sept

Fitch rates Rothesay’s £500m Tier 2 notes BBB+

Fitch Ratings Rothesay

7 Sept

Swiss Re sees $200 billion of new P&C premiums from data centre and renewable energy capex by 2030

Market Analysis

7 Sept

Insurers back EIOPA move to strip gas and nuclear breakdowns from Taxonomy templates

ESG & Sustainability

7 Sept

European and UK insurers’ outsourced assets doubled to $2.1trn since 2021, Clearwater survey shows

Market Analysis

Clearwater Analytics Standard Life Ninety One

7 Sept

Running investment income makes up most of reinsurers’ 13.8% underlying return, Gallagher Re finds

Market Analysis

Hannover Re Munich Re Swiss Re S&P Global Ratings

7 Sept

Standard Life assembles £2bn pension risk transfer partnership

PRT & Longevity

Standard Life PGIM