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  • Chart of the Week - MA is a £78bn capital goldmine that UK lifers just keep digging

    02 May 2025

    Lifers exhibit 190% average solvency ratio with the MA, just 85% without it

  • 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 - 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

  • Royal London receives High Court approval for fund consolidation

    05 January 2023

    As part of the UK insurer's simplification drive

  • A match, a spark! - the MA ignites UK lifers' investment appetites

    02 May 2022

    The MA has given UK lifers about £400bn of capital benefit since 2016 - and more fruitful use of it to invest in the real economy could yet come, if HM Treasury's proposals are enacted. David Walker investigates

  • Chart of the week - Why the MA matters...

    03 May 2021

    ...and not just to insurers

  • UK lifers reveal more about their matching adjustment investments

    27 April 2021

    And where solvency ratios would go, without the MA

  • Axa completes sale of Architas UK for €100m

    04 November 2020

    Group's asset managers near €1bn revenue

  • 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

  • Aberdeen Standard Investments hopes to get Phoenix £7bn AuM

    30 May 2018

    Mandates 'under review' at Phoenix revealed in Aberdeen document

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