
2026 Insurance Asset Management Trends
Trends from the Insurance Investment Outsourcing Report
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Trends from the Insurance Investment Outsourcing Report
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.
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Explore the evolution of the alternatives market for insurers, drawing on Clearwater’s proprietary database to reveal real-time allocation trends.
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.
Welcome to the final session of the Clearwater GenAI Office Hours for Insurance series. This culminating session focuses on advanced workflows, empowering you to fully leverage Clearwater’s embedded capabilities.
Advance your Clearwater GenAI workflow skills in this fourth session of our Office Hours for Insurance series.