Life insurance assets transferred to private equity insurers
STO-REC-STAT01M2KJT2 National
1 trillionUSD
Global · as of 27 May 2024
Life insurance assets transferred to private equity insurers stood at 1 trillion USD as of 27 May 2024 (Swiss Re).
- Publisher
- Swiss Re
- Authority tier
- T2 National
- Locator
- Figure 6. European life insurance industry portfolio allocations, 2017-22
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
We estimate that more than USD 1 trillion of life assets have transferred to PE-owned insurers globally since 2009.
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- APA
- Swiss Re Institute. (2024). sigma 2/2024: Life insurance in the higher interest rate era. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/sigma-research/sigma-2024-02-life-annuity-insurance.html. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC7C757DZQG3AW6Q63H
- MLA
- Swiss Re Institute. "sigma 2/2024: Life insurance in the higher interest rate era." 2024, https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/sigma-research/sigma-2024-02-life-annuity-insurance.html. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC7C757DZQG3AW6Q63H.
- Chicago
- Swiss Re Institute. "sigma 2/2024: Life insurance in the higher interest rate era." 2024. https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/sigma-research/sigma-2024-02-life-annuity-insurance.html. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC7C757DZQG3AW6Q63H.
- BibTeX
- @misc{swissre2024lifew6q63h, author = {{Swiss Re Institute}}, title = {sigma 2/2024: Life insurance in the higher interest rate era}, year = {2024}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC7C757DZQG3AW6Q63H}, note = {Original source: https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/sigma-research/sigma-2024-02-life-annuity-insurance.html. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- Swiss Re Institute · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 2 · National Official
- Report
- sigma 2/2024: Life insurance in the higher interest rate era
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Figure 6. European life insurance industry portfolio allocations, 2017-22
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC7C757DZQG3AW6Q63H