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  • UPDATED: Lloyds to pay SLA £140m to settle Scottish Widows mandate dispute

    23 July 2019

    Standard Life Aberdeen will also retain £30bn share of mandate until 2022 according to Sky News report

  • Insurers are becoming specialists in private markets

    09 July 2019

    In their search for yield, insurers have become so accustomed with private assets they are now able to generate their own deals and perform in-depth analysis in-house, according to panellists at Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2019 conference. Vincent Huck reports

  • Heightened appetite for illiquid assets could come back to bite insurers

    28 June 2019

    Lower compensations from illiquid assets, disruption from ESG considerations and political uncertainty as the new norm, are the key issues on top of insurers’ CIOs’ minds, according to an EY survey. Adam Leach reports

  • 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

  • ABI calls to keep matching adjustment post Brexit

    10 June 2019

    Risk margin and matching adjustment rules top trade body list of regulatory concerns

  • Standard Life Aberdeen grows AuM by 3%

    14 May 2019

    Joint venture with retail investment division of Virgin Money adds £3.5bn

  • Where art thou risk?

    10 May 2019

    Investment leaders to discuss investment strategy in the context of emerging risk at Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2019

  • Lloyds takes £339m hit for estimated cost of Scottish Widows' manager switch

    02 May 2019

    One-off costs hit the banks’ Q1 profit

  • Diversity Project launches Scottish chapter

    17 April 2019

    Insurers and asset managers join other financial services firms in the chapter’s launch

  • SLA wins arbitration against Lloyds for Scottish Widows’ mandate

    19 March 2019

    Panel rules merger of Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard Life did not give Lloyds the right to serve early notice on investment mandate