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  • 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

  • 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