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  • PE and insurance: perception versus reality

    21 June 2024

    Private equity and alternative asset manager-owned life insurers have been accused of making risky investments and running opaque businesses intent on making a fast buck. The facts may not bear this out, as Sarfraz Thind reports in the first of a two-part article

  • Asset-intensive reinsurance intensively assessed

    09 April 2024

    The NAIC is drawing up proposals to tackle asset-intensive reinsurance as regulators worry about the vast volumes of risk being ceded outside the US. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Analysis on PE-insurance needs to be "much deeper", says Morningstar

    29 January 2024

    Canada has not seen a huge uptick in deals for this business so far

  • Insurers maintain push for two-year IFRS 17 delay

    16 November 2018

    Proposed one-year deferral is good, but not good enough