Chinese insurers eye global private credit opportunity

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 credit market is among the fastest-growing areas of investment, forecast by BlackRock to rise from some $1.6 trillion today to $3.5 trillion by end-2028. Such bullishness is understandable, given the giant wall of money still sitting on the sidelines.

Consider China’s insurance industry, the world’s biggest after the US.

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