Archive

• Rothesay and CCF Group to acquire €6.7bn of French home loans from HSBC

  21 July 2025

  Portfolio predominantly consists of 25-year, fixed-rate, secured home loans

• Purpose built student accommodation: Smart bet or long-term risk?

  16 July 2025

  More and more UK insurers and their asset managers are investing in PBSA, but reports from the US suggest the market can be a distinctly mixed bag

• Rothesay completes £400m student housing deal

  09 July 2025

  Refinancing agreement completed with Unite Group fund

• Moody's Ratings reveals volume of ERMs in large UK MA portfolios

  10 June 2025

  Total volume held was about 7% of total UK annuity investments in 2024, agency finds

• SFCR 2025 - Lapse risk keeps pressure up on Italian lifers in 2024

  28 May 2025

  2023 may have been the peak of policyholders cashing in contracts early, but last year was not that much easier for Italian life insurers

• Generali backs Italian government's €700m fund of funds

  27 May 2025

  Alongside Allianz and several other financial companies

• Rothesay completes £120m full scheme buy-in with examination board

  12 May 2025

  Deal with AQA Pension Scheme secures the benefits of all 869 scheme members

• Rothesay North America CIO joins private real estate investment firm

  12 May 2025

  Robert Allard replaced by UBS Securities Simon Gray at Rothesay NA

• Chart of the Week - MA is a £78bn capital goldmine that UK lifers just keep digging

  02 May 2025

  Lifers exhibit 190% average solvency ratio with the MA, just 85% without it

• 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