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

  • Chart of the Week - Dissection of UK life firms' market risk SCR

    23 May 2025

    Insurance Risk Data makes a pinpoint breakdown of UK market risk

  • 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

  • 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

  • How best to describe a stuff-up? SFCR writers confront Whitehall's gilts-storm

    01 May 2023

    Remember, remember the 23rd of September - when gilt yields exploded, without a mote of gunpowder in sight. David Walker reads how UK insurers revisited the scene in their SFCRs

  • 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

  • UK lifers reveal more about their matching adjustment investments

    27 April 2021

    And where solvency ratios would go, without the MA

  • Largest 50 EEA insurance investors in bonds held €2.2trn in 2018

    02 January 2020

    French insurers favour govvies while UK insurers focus on corporates

  • 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