Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) could be a terrific alternative source of capital for primary insurers and reinsurers around the globe.
At least that was the hypothesis we here at Deloitte offered about four years ago in a June 2008 special report on this potential new supplier of financing for insurance carriers, titled “Insurance Firms: The Missing Link in the Sovereign Wealth Fund Acquisition Spree.”
But when a reporter for a British publication called recently to check up on how that theory was panning out, we had to admit that we weren't aware of much investment from SWFs in the insurance sector since our report came out.
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