Archive

  • 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

  • How to make infrastructure investments in an over saturated market? Diversify!

    17 April 2025

    Emerging markets are an increasingly wise prospect, IAR's recent Investing in Real Asset Conference in London has heard

  • PFC calls on UK government to support housing and infrastructure investment

    03 March 2025

    New report reveals half of local authorities saw declines in infrastructure investment between 2018 and 2022

  • PIC forms £54m affordable housing public-private partnership

    04 November 2024

    JV with Muse and Homes England to deliver 3,000 low-carbon, low-energy affordable homes for the rental market

  • IAR Responsible Investing for Insurers 2024 round-up

    21 October 2024

    Conference audience hears key challenges and opportunities in sustainability

  • Insurance Asset Risk's RIFI: Nimble approach needed when setting portfolio sustainability targets

    21 October 2024

    Insurers need to keep monitoring going on long term assets, PIC says

  • Market share of UK lifers in pension risk transfer market revealed

    04 January 2024

    Fitch expects no let-up in annuity writers' hunger for illiquids in 2024

  • How can insurers hot-wire the energy transition?

    06 December 2023

    Four insurance investors sat down together in London to discuss what role insurance investors should be playing in the energy transition, as well as the investment tools that are available to help them speed up the change

  • Oil and gas falling short of transition expectations, Aviva Investors says

    09 August 2023

    Asset manager also sceptical of SLBs although it prefers their structure over green bonds

  • UK insurers eye Solvency II reform to tap into SLB market

    Liz Cain, head of debt origination at Pension Insurance Corporation, discusses how reform to Solvency II rules in the UK could open the sustainability-linked bond market to insurers, and the benefits of such instruments in a responsible investment strategy.