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Private credit has been called a bubble, a black box, and the next 2008. It has also quietly become a core holding on some of the largest institutional balance sheets in the country. The headlines are loud and contradictory, but the data tells story of continued growth.
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.
Our 2026 Outlook not only leverages the typical publicly available data – but also leverages the atypical, our own proprietary database. We’re looking out and, for the first time, looking in
Join our economist Matthew Vegari, Head of Research at Clearwater, as he challenges common assumptions about this unique business cycle.
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.
The true cost of manual processes in a trillion-dollar industry built on data
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.
Across APAC, executives managing $3.8 trillion in assets face a perfect storm: slowing growth, tightening regulations, and legacy systems that can’t keep pace.