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

  • Brookfield and Just Group back cash M&A offer valuing Just at £2.4bn

    31 July 2025

    Combined group would benefit from Brookfield's specialist AM skills, parties say

  • 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

  • Just Group sticking with fixed cashflow assets in MA portfolios, SFCR says

    14 April 2025

    Solvency UK reforms have been a 24-month tailwind for group's capital overall

  • 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

  • Chart of the Week: Around the world with SFCRs - MA delivers capital benefits to UK lifers

    31 May 2024

    As MA reform nears, the adjustment is delivering significant capital benefits to UK insurers

  • Chart of the Week - The MA's £482bn 'capital gift' to UK lifers (and their CIOs)

    21 April 2023

    UK infrastructure, gilts and credit on the GA menu for most lifers' MA portfolios

  • 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