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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 - 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

• UK lifers reveal more about their matching adjustment investments

  27 April 2021

  And where solvency ratios would go, without the MA

• Matching adjustment benefit to European life insurers' SCR increases by 9% in 2018

  11 June 2019

  Insurance Risk Data analysis reveals some adventurousness in MA investment portfolios

• How regulatory data can unlock the door to competitive advantage

  26 June 2018

  The data in Solvency II quantitative reporting templates can be used to gain insight and edge, David Walker reports.