Archive

• 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

• Chart of the week - Releasing pressure from Just's MA portfolio

  03 September 2021

  Just's latest sales of lifetime mortgages reinforce an enduring trend to lessen them in its MA

• Matching adjustment benefit to European life insurers' SCR increases by 9% in 2018

  11 June 2019

  Insurance Risk Data analysis reveals some adventurousness in MA investment portfolios

• Just Retirement reveals 45% weighting of lifetime mortgages in MA portfolio

  03 June 2019

  PRA wants board to “reconsider” aspects of internal model, Just Group solvency report reveals

• PIC appoints head of investment risk

  16 June 2017

  Former Partnership Life and Bupa Global risk chief joins UK annuity provider