Insurance

Schwartz identified lending opportunities in Europe and insurance growth in Asia during the Q1 earnings call.

Pierre-Emmanuel Brard’s hire is part of Blackstone’s global push to raise more capital from insurers, affiliate title PEI learns.

Executives at insurance companies with $14trn of assets prefer private debt, particularly investment grade credit, a new report found, and they see public debt as range bound.

The industry wants to invest in foreign private debt, and given its $4trn-odd in assets, even a small allocation would be a very big deal. Sun Life’s Ben Deng, former CIO of two of China’s biggest insurers, discusses the landscape.

The private equity giant is understood to be aiming to raise more capital from insurers as they seek bigger allocations to private markets.