
Joe Marsh
Pierre-Emmanuel Brard's hire is part of Blackstone's global push to raise more capital from insurers, affiliate title PEI learns.
The US start-up Firebrand Investors has senior management in place and is working to build out its investment team, Private Debt Investor has learned.
How investors like Swiss Re and the UK’s Pension Insurance Corporation are adapting to this fast-maturing asset class.
The institution's $133bn investment management unit has appointed a former head of alternatives from Singapore's NTUC Income to the newly created role.
Asset managers wanting to raise more capital from insurers in Asia need to raise their game, say insurance executives, as the region presents particular hurdles.
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.
Phoenix Group has signed up to the UK’s Mansion House Compact and launched an investment initiative with Schroders. The firm’s chief credit officer Michela Bariletti discusses UK pensions’ performance deficit and the role of private assets in addressing it.
The private equity giant is understood to be aiming to raise more capital from insurers as they seek bigger allocations to private markets.
Former global client chief Mike Perry and alternatives products head Keith Jones have left the $1.3trn firm, which is targeting $2trn in assets by 2030.
There have been cases when continuation funds have been 'misused and overused', according to Teia Merring, senior investment director at USS and chair of ILPA.