Archive

  • Chart of the Week: The UK Matching Adjustment reveals its full value

    17 April 2026

    Solvency II, then Solvency UK, have delivered a £720.6bn capital benefit to UK lifers

  • Matching adjustment: A near-£1trn weight off UK lifers' backs since 2016

    16 April 2026

    The £78.8bn capital relief in 2025 was not the highest annual total since 2016

  • Last year's MA capital relief surpasses alleviation for UK life firms in 2024

    15 April 2026

    In past three years MA delivered £235bn of benefits to UK industry

  • 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 - UK life insurers' market risk at sub-module level

    11 April 2025

    As equity and bond markets twist and turn, SFCRs reveal which gyrations matter most for UK CIOs

  • Nature Action 100 identifies 100 companies for biodiversity engagement

    02 October 2023

    Insurer and affiliate-backed initiative begins process of engagement with companies

  • Insurers join CDP's engagement campaign on climate disclosures

    29 June 2022

    Targeting 1,473 companies globally

  • 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

  • Europe's insurers on lookout for market volatility, credit spreads and inflation

    11 April 2022

    As they condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine in their SFCRs

  • Chart of the week - Why the MA matters...

    03 May 2021

    ...and not just to insurers