A redemption panic that hit the private-credit market over the past several months is not the insurer/investor problem, according to industry professionals. However, a looming maturity wall is the one private-credit risk a buy-and-hold annuity book can't structure away.
The perfect market-dislocation play driven by wildfires, California's energy utility sector was made for activist and credit funds trading on companies buckling under ballooning liabilities. The AI-driven datacenter electricity-demand boom has changed the calculus.