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  • Utmost Life and Pensions signs two BPA deals worth £62m with Stonegate Pub Company

    12 November 2025

    Transaction with two schemes ensure DB pension liabilities for 650 members

  • Chart of the Week - How Jon Moulton is not the only individual keen to own a Greek/Cypriot insurer...

    22 August 2025

    Insurance Risk Data unearths €2bn Greek/Cyrpiot insurance balance sheet in hands of individual owners

  • Utmost Life and Pensions updates on BPA progress since entering market last year

    09 July 2025

    Firm completed four full-scheme buy-ins YTD in 2025, worth £177m

  • 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

  • Schroders to manage £400m of Utmost's annuity book

    27 February 2025

    Following insurer's move into the UK BPA market in January

  • Utmost Life and Pensions confirms entry into UK BPA market

    09 January 2025

    Following appointment of ex-Rothesay CFO as new CEO

  • L&G signs £2m full scheme buy-in deal amidst wave of smaller bulk annuity transactions

    11 November 2024

    Aon finds 83% of UK deals in H1 24 were sub-£100m

  • Chart of the Week - Will new MA liabilities give UK CIOs fresh investment opportunities?

    12 May 2023

    Whitehall has mooted income protection and with-profits - a £6.6bn market - for MA inclusion

  • 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

  • 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