Archive

• 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

• Legal & General taps rainy-day funds for with-profits losses

  25 February 2019

  Fixed income, commercial property cuts impact of challenging year on policy returns