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• UK lifers unlock £78bn of capital benefits from MA in 2024

  01 May 2025

  Their benefit comprised £34.7bn lower SCRs and £43.4bn higher eligible own funds

• Chart of the Week: Around the world with SFCRs - MA delivers capital benefits to UK lifers

  31 May 2024

  As MA reform nears, the adjustment is delivering significant capital benefits to UK insurers

• Aviva Life & Pensions UK's MA-eligible assets fall in 2022

  05 May 2023

  MA asset portfolio dropped to £46.8bn, SFCR shows

• Aviva unit puts some MA investments through full-letter downgrade

  03 May 2023

  Only property stress-tests do more damage to 2022 solvency ratio

• A match, a spark! - the MA ignites UK lifers' investment appetites

  02 May 2022

  The MA has given UK lifers about £400bn of capital benefit since 2016 - and more fruitful use of it to invest in the real economy could yet come, if HM Treasury's proposals are enacted. David Walker investigates

• UK insurers roll out infrastructure investment plans

  17 May 2021

  Outsourcing duties to Equitix and M&G unit

• UK lifers reveal more about their matching adjustment investments

  27 April 2021

  And where solvency ratios would go, without the MA

• Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink

  04 October 2018

  Will insurers find in depleting water resources, and the resulting investment needs, a fresh source of financially-viable investments? Vincent Huck reports

• Aviva Life purchases two green bonds for £100m

  11 May 2018

  Bonds issued by the developer Tideway to help finance 25km sewer tunnel under River Thames