Archive

  • Parallel lending opportunities becoming more attractive to insurers, Muzinich and Co says

    22 July 2024

    Investments in-line with the focus Solvency II has placed on ratings and duration

  • Solvency UK reforms contribute to £100m risk margin reduction for mutuals, Broadstone finds

    22 July 2024

    Report on 2023 SFCRs also finds total assets rose by 2%

  • Chart of the Week - French political uncertainty and their insurers' sovereign holdings

    19 July 2024

    Banque de France publishes situation report for French insurers under Solvency II regulation

  • ABI approves of King's Speech and National Wealth Fund

    18 July 2024

    But warns of need to ensure NWF crowds in private finance instead of crowding it out

  • Phoenix Group welcomes planning reforms set out in King's Speech

    17 July 2024

    Plans by Westminster to devolve more powers to local government also welcomed, as insurers await changes to the NPPF

  • Liquidity management in an era of liquidity stress-tests

    17 July 2024

    Amid markets, and politicians delivering never-ending stressors of liquidity, insurers at Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2024 conference discussed how their needs for and measurement of liquidity may have changed in recent years, and the reasons why

  • Insurers welcome UK political stability

    16 July 2024

    But investment opportunities will depend on discipline and detail

  • 'Viva Espana!' Spain's lifers praise the big match[ing adjustment]

    15 July 2024

    Spaniards' SFCRs spoke of better risk and liquidity management from using the MA in 2023

  • BoE open to an 'MA accelerator' sandbox

    11 July 2024

    Bank's executive director of insurance also discussed streamlined application process

  • UK government launches National Wealth Fund with insurers on taskforce and ABI's blessing

    10 July 2024

    Aviva and L&G support fund that aims to catalyse private investment in infrastructure