US life insurers held about $85.2bn in AI ecosystem investments as of Q2 2026, up by 24% from $69bn at year-end 2025, Moody’s Ratings has revealed
Standard Life has entered the Irish pension risk transfer (PRT) market, with the insurer confirming its operational readiness to write bulk purchase annuity (BPA) business in the country
Illiquid assets represented an estimated 19.4% of German insurers’ invested assets in 2025, up from 15.8% in 2019, Moody’s Ratings has revealed



Finnish pension insurer, Ilmarinen, recorded investment returns of 6.2% in the first nine months of 2026, as its portfolio reached a record market value of €71bn
M&G has launched a new insurer-backed run-on solution for defined benefit (DB) pension schemes, securing a £400m mandate from an unnamed UK scheme for its Cashflow Driven Investing+ (CDI+) offering
Seventy-eight per cent of German primary insurers’ investments are covered by a decarbonisation goal, a significant decline from last year’s figure of 91%, according to the German Insurance Association, GDV
Finnish pension insurer, Veritas, returned 8.1% on its investments in the first three quarters of 2026, 2.9 percentage points higher than the same period last year, its interim results revealed


