As structural shifts replace globalisation with regionalisation, insurers are adapting strategic allocations through stricter risk management and shorter investment tenors.
Regional insurers continue to consider private credit, infrastructure debt and asset-backed finance even as their chief investment officers are increasingly focused on ensuring their balance sheets can withstand periods of market stress.
The fund's manager warns that liquidity risk — not AI concentration — may be the greater structural threat to Korean institutional portfolios as private market allocations expand.
Korean pensions must endure volatility and embrace a total portfolio approach (TPA) after painful lessons from 2008 exposed the cost of abandoning long-term conviction.
Canada’s second-largest pension investor sees the country as an active opportunity market across public equities and digital infrastructure, with corporate reforms potentially opening future private equity deals.
John Livanas, the Australian pension fund's CEO, says true investment leadership requires the “BLT principle”—Boldness, Luck, and Talent—beyond technical expertise.
As spreads and scrutiny tighten, insurers are weighing corporate lending against asset-backed securities backed by diversified pools of consumer and real economy loans.