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

  • Moody's warns US lifers issuing FABNs to limit ALM and liquidity risks

    05 March 2026

    Athene, New York Life and Metlife were industry's most prolific issuers, in 2025

  • Conversation piece: PBBD classifications are live, but the NAIC still has its ear to the ground

    29 September 2025

    NAIC president, Jon Godfread, and a panel of insurers discuss the peaks and troughs of implementing the principles-based bond definition

  • Temperature check: How is the NAIC's modernisation of RBC progressing?

    24 September 2025

    NAIC president Jon Godfread gives his views

  • New York Life and MIM invest in recreational fintech business

    16 April 2025

    Via participation in a $700m forward-flow facility

  • IAR North America 24: Sidecars becoming increasingly attractive

    16 September 2024

    Raises money without upsetting company narrative

  • Swiss Re names next CFO as John Dacey announces retirement

    31 July 2024

    Athora's CFO is to join Swiss Re next year, as Dacey's successor

  • Mutual insurers align over $1trn of assets to sustainable frameworks

    02 November 2023

    ICMIF survey shows 32% annual jump in global sector assets aligned to frameworks