Wall Street titans, including private equity giants Apollo, Blackstone, and KKR, are betting big on the insurance sector by acquiring insurers or taking minority stakes in exchange for managing their assets. This strategy is part of a larger trend where private equity firms, flush with cash, are seeking to diversify into new markets such as European infrastructure, with Spain's largest private equity firm working to raise a new fund worth over €2 billion to tap into investor appetite. The European Investment Fund is promoting ESCALAR, a program aimed at supporting Europe's most promising and high-growth companies. Fortress Investment Group's investment in a new Orlando maintenance terminal exemplifies the positive impact of private equity investments. However, as these firms evolve into asset managers and prepare for IPOs, their growing influence overhauls the financial system and brings potential risks, causing regulators to worry.
The kings of Wall Street are placing billion-dollar bets on insurance. Their deals have overhauled the financial system—and could imperil it https://t.co/9bPtgVtJoj 👇
The kings of private equity—Apollo, Blackstone, and KKR—have all bought insurers or taken minority stakes in them in exchange for managing their assets. Fundamentally, the strategy makes sense. Yet it also brings risks—to society as well as to firms https://t.co/0EHxIveRc8 👇
The kings of Wall Street are placing billion-dollar bets on insurance. Read why regulators have reason to worry https://t.co/xNhLFUyv6B Illustration: George Wylesol https://t.co/47I7zB1qpD
#News in @RankiaProEN 🌍 📰 What is Private Equity? Highlighting the growth in the industry, the article cites @InvestEuropeEU's explanation that “private equity fund managers believe that keeping a company in private hands allows them to focus on making positive and lasting…
#News in @boersenzeitung 🇩🇪 📰 Financial investors are becoming asset managers Private equity firms, including @CVC_Capital and @generalatlantic, are acquiring #infrastructure divisions and preparing IPOs in order to grow, and in doing are showing how industry players are… https://t.co/EcoIOAgZJy
Fortress Investment Group's new Orlando maintenance terminal. We need more private equity investments like this. https://t.co/zE1uqS6BUC
Calling all European fund managers 📣 Only 1 week left to apply to ESCALAR, the programme to support most promising and high growth companies in Europe. @EIF_EU #Innovation & #Growth Mandate Officer, Antonio Stefanucci, explains why you should consider it 🎥… https://t.co/3gIONYaEhq
The world’s private equity firms have cash to burn. First, they want to earn https://t.co/iXWELnII6z via @rngould @markets #PrivateEquity
Spain’s largest private equity firm is working to raise a new fund worth more than €2 billion as it seeks to tap into investor appetite for European infrastructure https://t.co/VvGO1xnlPo
Wall Street titans are betting big on insurers. What could go wrong? https://t.co/E3nPqAqNlf from @TheEconomist #PrivateEquity