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

  • COTW: Getting out early - UK insurers wax lyrical on 'the trials of life', in lapse risk

    12 September 2025

    Sector did not speak as much about keeping GAs liquid to counter lapse risk, in 2024 SFCRs

  • Investment fees leap at the Pru

    01 November 2022

    As with-profits fund buys into alternatives