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The Clearwater GIC Marketplace is the first digital platform purpose-built for stable value GIC transactions. It connects fund managers and GIC issuers in a centralized environment that replaces the entire manual solicitation process with a single, unified workflow.
Investment management runs on data. So when we started building AI into Clearwater three years ago, we already had something most companies have to spend years accumulating: $10 trillion in assets under management, two decades of investment data, and the domain expertise to know exactly what accuracy means in this industry.
Recent geopolitical risk and market volatility have accelerated the trend among energy firms for enterprise risk management and renewed the focus on scenario- and stress-testing capabilities, says Brian Wood at Beacon by Clearwater.
Based on insights from Clearwater Analytics and Invesco’s webinar: Unlocking Private Credit in Institutional Portfolios: From Allocation to Operational Reality
The APAC insurers we spoke to say they are burdened by manual processes and legacy technology, which are hampering effective moves up the risk curve. The vast majority (85%) of respondents of our APAC Insurance Survey expect the risk profile of their investment portfolios to rise over the next two years.
Our latest APAC Insurance Report found that only 17% of insurers in APAC say their ALM systems can “very easily” cope with diversification and new instruments.
Software engineering is changing fast in the age of AI, and the way we design, build, and ship software is evolving with it. This multi-part series dives into practical techniques for using AI to boost productivity, keep code quality high, and help your teams move faster—without losing control of your architecture or standards.
Our recent survey of APAC insurance asset managers – representing $2.6 trillion in AUM across Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia – revealed that insurers are becoming far more comfortable handing a larger share of their assets to external managers.
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The chart-busting growth of alternative assets over the past decade has prompted many asset managers to increase their allocations to a wide range of private credit, equity, real estate, and hedge fund strategies. Multiple surveys and reports, including our recent Rise of Alternatives analysis, have commented on this phenomenon. But few (if any) have had access to Clearwater’s database of nearly 400 insurers representing $4.4 trillion in combined AUM (as of August 2025).
Investment operations have long been burdened by inefficiencies—teams tied up in manual reconciliations, tight monthly close deadlines, and stitching reports across systems. At the pace of today’s financial markets, these challenges aren’t just inconvenient—they’re costly in time and error risk. And markets aren’t slowing down.
After divesting from the US this spring, non-US insurers have re-embraced American assets as market sentiment has improved.
Our midyear macro update for corporates is based on a comprehensive review of the recent history of corporate investment performance, using Clearwater’s proprietary data.
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