What Insurance Company Allocators Actually Measure

Insurance company investment teams live in a different analytical world than pension or endowment allocators. Their metrics reflect their regulatory environment and liability-driven mandates.

Risk-based capital efficiency, book yield over total return, and asset-liability matching drive their decisions. Speak their language — a lower-returning structure that's RBC-efficient may be more attractive than a higher-returning one that isn't.

Key topics: insurance company investing, life insurance capital, RBC efficiency, book yield, asset-liability matching, institutional investors, capital allocation, raising capital, private credit, real estate investing, alternative investments, LP investing, fund managers, regulatory capital, fixed income, GP-LP relationships, infrastructure investing.

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