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Financial Market Resilience: Three Waves of Action for Market Infrastructure Firms in the Aftermath of COVID-19

COVID-19 will play a crucial role in defining how financial market infrastructure evolves over the next decade. In a new report, Guy Carpenter-affiliate Oliver Wyman outlines three waves of management action to help navigate the challenges ahead. The report was written by Oliver Wyman Partners Hiten Patel, Daniela Peterhoff, Michael Wagner and Tobias Wuergler and Principal ... Continue Reading »

The Impact of COVID-19 on Alternative Assets

The rapidly evolving COVID-19 crisis is continuing to create severe political, social, and economic uncertainty that is translating into significant public market volatility worldwide. While the impact on alternative assets is less observable to-date, it is likely to be as significant as that for public markets. ... Continue Reading »

Is Coronavirus About to Cause the Next Global Financial Crisis?

The ongoing coronavirus is extracting a heavy toll on financial markets and investors’ psychological well-being. Much of the focus of headlines has been on the gut-wrenching losses in major global stock and commodity markets, disorienting spikes in equity volatility and plunges in treasury yields. But the shaky foundations of the USD 72 trillion global corporate debt market a ... Continue Reading »

Private Equity Responses to COVID-19

COVID-19 has infected thousands of people globally and is taking its toll on individuals, families, and economies as productivity drops and stock markets reflect increased global uncertainty. Experts are monitoring numerous items in an attempt to determine how long this could last, and how it might play out.  ... Continue Reading »

Doubling Down – Europe’s Low-Carbon Investment Opportunity

To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, global temperature rise must be limited to no more than 1.5°C, requiring global carbon emissions to decline to net-zero by the middle of the century. Accordingly, the European Union (EU) has set a new target to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Most of the low-carbon investment needed to achieve this goal must come from the private ... Continue Reading »

How Can Large Asset Owners Make the Most of Nontraditional Risks?

Asset owners and investment managers pursuing sustainable capital growth face a new world of risk. The challenges, as highlighted in the World Economic Forum’s most recent Global Risks Report, don’t fit within conventional investment theory, according to Fiona Dunsire, Wealth Leader of Growth Markets at Mercer, Peter Grant, Principal at Mercer Investments and Richard Silvan, Inv ... Continue Reading »

Structured Capital Partnerships: An Evolution of the P&C Reinsurance Business Model

Over the past two decades, alternative capital has grown to represent almost a quarter of the total reinsurance industry capital. Insurance-linked securities (ILS), sidecars and collateralized reinsurance continue to provide valuable capacity to (re)insurers, corporates, and public sector entities to efficiently manage capital and risk alongside traditional market solutions, ... Continue Reading »

Structured Capital Partnerships: An Evolution of the P&C Reinsurance Business Model – GC@MC Commentary

Over the past two decades, alternative capital has grown to represent almost a quarter of the total reinsurance industry capital. Insurance-linked securities (ILS), sidecars and collateralized reinsurance continue to provide valuable capacity to (re)insurers, corporates, and public sector entities to efficiently manage capital and risk alongside traditional market solutions, ... Continue Reading »