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  • The BPA sector is running hot - could anything slow this busy market down?

    17 June 2024

    Leading insurance investors in the UK pension risk transfer market sat down at Insurance Asset Risk's recent EMEA conference in London to discuss the burgeoning BPA sector and what, if anything, could waylay its dazzling progress

  • Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2024 conference round up

    10 June 2024

    Geopolitics and its impact on markets running thread of conference's discussions

  • IAR EMEA 2024: The burgeoning BPA market will continue to break records...

    10 June 2024

    ... but beware of some of the "breaks" in the system

  • S&P welcomes increased scrutiny of funded reinsurance from PRA and BMA

    06 June 2024

    Warning recapture of ceded exposures could push some BPA writers into negative solvency ratios

  • PIC completes £204m full buy-in with Arqiva

    29 May 2024

    Deal will secure the pension benefits of 589 current pensioners and dependents and 215 deferred members

  • Dai-ichi Life gives coffee trading platform a shot in the arm

    10 May 2024

    Investment is 'responsible', but insurer expects "high returns" too

  • PIC completes £1.5bn of new PRT business deals in Q1

    03 May 2024

    Total includes buy-in agreements with De Beers and Next Group

  • Chinese life investment yields in 2023 revealed

    30 April 2024

    Fitch welcomes cooling in major firms' investment return assumptions

  • Fitch Ratings predicts UK bulk annuity transaction volumes will pass £60bn in 2024

    18 April 2024

    After reaching highest ever levels of almost £50bn in 2023

  • Comment: EIOPA fires its own starting gun on actually implementing Solvency II reform

    18 April 2024

    Small yet pivotal parts of SFCRs for non-UK firms have been amended, with significantly better transparency one result