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Stealth Risks Insurers Aren’t Pricing In

The stealth risks building inside APAC insurance portfolios are not inevitable. They are the predictable result of growing faster than the infrastructure can support, and they are addressable for firms willing to treat operational capability as a strategic priority rather than an administrative one.

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TSAM London 2026: What Buy-Side Leaders Were Saying About Data, AI, and the Operational Gap

TSAM London returned to the Business Design Centre on April 13-14, bringing together senior buy-side leaders for two days of conversation on the forces reshaping asset management. 

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Apr 21 2026
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Launching a Hedge Fund in 2026: The Technology Stack You Actually Need 

Here’s what we’ve learned about what actually matters in year one of launching a hedge fund, and what will matter in years three, five, and ten.

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Evolving equity risk factor models for today’s markets

Discover how the Clearwater GR8 equity risk factor model improves portfolio risk attribution with new factors for crowding, drawdown, and payout. Built for quantamental strategies and institutional asset management.

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Apr 13 2026

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CWAN Report: A rapidly changing insurance market in APAC – but are insurers up to the challenge?

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.

Reports
CWAN : une nouvelle identité pour refléter une couverture fonctionnelle à 360°

Newsletter France CWAN #8 : une nouvelle identité pour refléter une couverture fonctionnelle à 360°

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Blog
Nov 27 2025
Are “alternatives” still alternative?  

Explore the evolution of the alternatives market for insurers, drawing on CWAN’s proprietary database to reveal real-time allocation trends. 

Reports, Research Desk
Nov 18 2025
For today’s insurers, ‘alternatives’ are hardly a fringe strategy

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 CWAN’s database of nearly 400 insurers representing $4.4 trillion in combined AUM (as of August 2025).

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Blog
Nov 17 2025
Get ahead, stay ahead: how AI bridges ops and markets

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.

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Nov 17 2025
Webinar | CWAN GenAI Office Hours for Insurance: Live Session 5

Welcome to the final session of the CWAN GenAI Office Hours for Insurance series. This culminating session focuses on advanced workflows, empowering you to fully leverage CWAN’s embedded capabilities.

On-demand webinars
Webinar | CWAN GenAI Office Hours for Insurance: Live Session 4

Advance your CWAN GenAI workflow skills in this fourth session of our Office Hours for Insurance series.

On-demand webinars
Boardrooms and C-suites should pay more attention to cash strategies

Adopting a dynamic approach to cash management is a necessary step to better bottom lines. CWAN data suggests dozens, if not hundreds, of firms on our platform could achieve better portfolio performance by paying more attention to shifts in monetary policy and the bond market.

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Reports, Research Desk
Nov 14 2025
Webinar | Are Alternatives Still Alternative?

Join us for a 45-minute live session as we unpack real-time allocation trends from CWAN’s proprietary dataset and discuss what these shifts mean for insurers navigating today’s evolving market.

On-demand webinars
Jan 22 2026