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Clients want reassurance their manager is using AI properly. See what our global research reveals about AI adoption, budgets and data governance concerns.
Asset managers are embracing AI, but weak data holds many back. New Clearwater research on where AI is delivering results across the investment workflow.
The AI investment paradox in asset management: why firms are spending big on AI yet remain deeply divided on the value of those investments.
Insurance risk regulation has quietly changed shape. The frameworks that rating agencies and regulators apply to insurers no longer accept a simplified estimate of what a portfolio would be worth under stress. Increasingly, they expect insurers to demonstrate a genuinely recalculated value — every instrument, repriced under each prescribed condition.
APAC insurers’ appetites for private markets are set to dwarf those for public markets over the next two years, as investment teams are drawn to diversification benefits and return potential.
APAC insurers are racing into private markets, expanding their use of third-party managers, and preparing for an era of rapid consolidation. But beneath the momentum, data integration – or a lack thereof – threatens to slow even the most ambitious investment teams.
Our new research with executives at APAC insurers responsible for managing a combined $3.823 trillion in assets reveals the challenges firms face in moving from legacy systems, heavily reliant on manual intervention, to seamless automated processes fit for the digital age.
For more than a decade, the Insurance Investment Outsourcing Report (IIOR) has served as the industry’s standard directory of insurance-focused investment managers and consultants.
Improved risk visibility is critical as organisations increasingly see opportunities in private markets. Making full use of enhanced technology and platforms that can integrate data plays a central role as firms expand the asset classes they invest in, particularly given the regulatory pressures driving technology spending across the APAC region.
This post goes beyond vibe coding and shows practical ways to work with AI coding agents to produce better-engineered software products in real projects.
2025 was another year where doomsayers got it very wrong. After the new White House introduced sweeping tariffs in the spring, many pundits and economists predicted a hard landing for the economy: a melt-up in prices, due to tariffs, and a meltdown in the business environment, as companies grappled with increased costs.
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.
Peek behind the code at Clearwater Engineering. Discover how our team tackles challenges like AI orchestration, auto‑scaling, and zero‑trust.