“Historically, investing property on behalf of insurance coverage firms was a comparatively easy matter of matching property and liabilities. Now, not solely are insurers trying to spend money on higher-yielding personal asset property, it additionally is sensible for them to speculate extra in fairness or equity-like buildings,” Zhu stated, pointing to a current funding in a “sidecar” by Reinsurance Group of America for instance of how insurers are diversifying throughout the steadiness sheet.