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S’pore and regional insurers to look more to private credit market for yield, say observers

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Singapore could show the way for regional insurers on how to balance their liabilities and assets.

SINGAPORE - Local and regional insurers will likely turn more to the less liquid private credit market and other private asset funds in the coming few years as they seek to improve yields, observers said.

After the revised framework was rolled out here, he noted that there was a modest increase in government bond holdings among five large life insurers – AIA, Great Eastern, Income Insurance, Manulife and Prudential.There was also a modest increase in the five firms’ cash and deposit exposures. But he noted that Asia-Pacific insurers often view this asset class as complex, so they avoid it. This means there is room for this segment to grow in the region.

 

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