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The last two years have been particularly challenging as the global insurance market went through a ‘hard market’, that is, a sustained period of constriction and correction. This environment, coupled with the uncertainty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic meant insurance brokers have had to ensure key parts of cover remain in play, hire even more quality associates and invest in innovative technology to support their clients further.
“We saw reductions in capacity, increases in premiums and deductibles, restrictions in coverage and limits of liability available to our clients,” details Gareth Abbott, senior vice president, Lockton Companies LLP. The firm’s tech
As private equity asset managers forge more strategic relationships with their institutional investor clients, their needs for data and timely reporting are becoming sharper and more essential. The advent of retail participation in the PE space will also herald new challenges.
The PE space has been growing faster than anyone could have predicted, with the industry witnessing record fundraising growth. This has led to a change in the dynamics of the market.
“Managers and investors have seen the investment opportunities available and, as a result, the market has been maturing. Some of the larger institutional investors have become co-investors and
Behind the eye-watering valuations and growth projections, a wider spectrum of risk-return strategies is opening up in the digital infrastructure sector…
KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners’ (GIP) acquisition of one of the world’s largest data centre operators, CyrusOne, in March was notable not just for the size of the transaction at USD15 billion but also for how the two buyers used different risk strategies to close the investment.
Data centres have always featured some overlap between corporates, real estate and infrastructure funds but KKR’s use of both infrastructure and real estate equity along with GIP’s infrastructure funds proved how buyers
BlackRock has expanded its partnership with a consortium of Limited Partners (LPs) and Funds of Funds in an effort to streamline and standardise ESG reporting for private markets.
Ergon Capital Partners (Ergon), a mid-market investor in Europe, has made the final closing of Ergon Capital Partners V, SCSp (ECP V) with capital commitments of €800 million, significantly exceeding its target and initial hard cap of €750 million.
SirionLabs, a global company in AI-powered contract lifecycle management (CLM), has secured $85 million in Series D funding led by Partners Group.
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Portfolio companies increasingly recognise the huge potential of untapped international talent in the private equity sector — an awareness that emerged due to the new remote work era driven by the recent pandemic.
Apollo Global Management is releasing a slate of funds designed for individual investors, with the aim of breaking into the fundraising potential of the ‘retail’ market, according to a report from Financial News.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has been appointed to provide fiduciary management services to two UK pension schemes within the Short Brothers Common Investment Fund (Common Investment Fund) with assets totalling £1.6 billion.
7/10 of UK adults, with at least one investment outside of their pension, say they would be more likely to choose an investment in a fund or organisation if they knew it was having a positive social or environmental impact, according to research from Big Society Capital.
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