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

  • APAC Weekly - Australia's annuity writer(s) wins out in capital framework re-set

    07 April 2026

    Apollo-backed Challenger argued for some significantly different capital framework settings, to those its industry will get, come July

  • APAC Weekly: Insurers' healthy outlook at a new dawn for regulations in Japan

    31 March 2026

    Investment reshuffles have played their part in strong solvency buffers, as industry moves to economic value-based solvency rules

  • AllianzGI signs MoU with South Korea's National Pension Service

    17 March 2026

    Strategic partnership encompass all asset classes under a unified framework

  • South Korean insurers given green light to discuss remuneration with investees

    12 March 2026

    Country's Stewardship Code is being revised for first time in 1H 2026

  • APAC Weekly: Japanese lifers' diversified use of asset-intensive reinsurance

    10 March 2026

    Japan's life cedants are risk-controlling their increasing use of asset-intensive reinsurance, says S&P Global Ratings

  • Lotte Insurance told to consider asset sales in South Korea

    09 March 2026

    PE-owned firm has been given tougher business improvement plan by regulator

  • Fitch predicts cull of investment risk in South Korea ahead of core ratio proposed from 2027

    29 January 2026

    FSC revealed plans for new ratio this month

  • "Dull is good" for gilts, Aberdeen says

    19 January 2026

    Manager predicts more BoE rate cuts in 2026 than markets expect