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...“The role of reinsurance, particularly offshore reinsurance, is making [it] even harder to regulate an already opaque life insurance sector,” he added....
...These types of asset-backed debts have become hotly coveted in the private capital industry as large managers such as Brookfield, Apollo Global and KKR manage insurance-based investment assets, generating...
...Almost 10 per cent — $850bn — of the US life insurance industry’s assets were owned or managed by private equity firms by the end of 2021, the IMF said....
...The above chart is in the supporting bumf around a much-delayed plan to float a painting....
...The Association of British Insurers’ Investment Delivery Forum, set up to facilitate the promised investments, on Monday said new public-private partnerships that use taxpayer funds would reduce risks....
...The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is working on proposals aimed at ensuring asset managers do not seek too much influence over the banks in which they hold large stakes....
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...Portfolios of private assets are being dumped by so-called defined benefit pension schemes — funds offering members a set amount in retirement — as they try to prepare themselves for a buyout by an insurance...
...Almost 10 per cent — $850bn — of US life insurance industry assets were owned or managed by private equity firms by the end of 2021, the IMF said....
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...London Gallery Weekend’s partnership with the Art Fund, which includes supporting travel and accommodation for curators from the UK’s regional museums and galleries, added to the event’s appeal, she says...
...Wealthy individual investors also poured more than $8bn into Blackstone’s funds, including $2.7bn for a recently launched private equity fund targeting so-called retail investors....
...If a $2tn industry is worth scrutiny but probably not dangerous yet, what about a $3tn industry? $4tn?...
...LIU had intended to use the funds to invest in Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurance market....
...pension schemes that worked across industries and professions....
...“From our point of view it is a finely balanced renewal,” said David Flandro, head of industry analysis at insurance broker Howden’s reinsurance broking arm....
...This means that offloading liabilities, and the assets backing them, to insurance companies is becoming a viable option for more businesses....
...Not the bit about GA being a home-run investment, which is true to date; the bit about selling PE funds to insurance clients....
...“All EU regulators are really down on PE fund owners right now,” one insurance executive told the FT....
...The hedge fund industry responded with outrage. The final rule seemed to take those objections into consideration....
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