Archive

  • SFCR season: The UK matching adjustment's heavyweights and their investment portfolios

    30 April 2026

    Last year capped off a successful opening decade for the matching adjustment, helping its UK users save a whopping £720.6bn worth of regulatory capital. David Walker examines how they did it

  • German insurers welcome seismic pension reform - with caveats

    27 April 2026

    Germany's Riester Rente system was certainly in need of change, but practitioners aren't wholly convinced what's coming quite fits the bill...

  • 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

  • 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

  • Chart of the Week - BPA writers, alternatives managers and the hunger for private assets

    13 March 2026

    Bulk purchase annuities are proving fertile grounds for UK life firms and alts managers to work together, Moody's explains...

  • Unipol reveals CSM benefit from integrating Eurovita's remains

    24 February 2026

    Group's overall life guarantee fell to 0.68%, from 0.75% last year

  • Rothesay completes £240m buy-in for KLM pension scheme

    10 February 2026

    Secures benefits of 1,852 members

  • M&G notes £722m exposure to UK ground rent phase out

    02 February 2026

    M&G notes £722m exposure to UK ground rent phase out

  • Rothesay completes £107m buy-in with Lincolnshire Co-operative Pension Scheme

    16 December 2025

    Secures the benefits of 2,300 members

  • UK investors launch Sterling 20 group as step up from Mansion House Accord

    20 October 2025

    Office for Investment will support the creation of a pipeline of opportunities