Archive

  • Chart of the Week: Around the world with SFCRs - MA delivers capital benefits to UK lifers

    31 May 2024

    As MA reform nears, the adjustment is delivering significant capital benefits to UK insurers

  • Aviva Life & Pensions UK's MA-eligible assets fall in 2022

    05 May 2023

    MA asset portfolio dropped to £46.8bn, SFCR shows

  • Aviva unit puts some MA investments through full-letter downgrade

    03 May 2023

    Only property stress-tests do more damage to 2022 solvency ratio

  • 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

  • UK insurers roll out infrastructure investment plans

    17 May 2021

    Outsourcing duties to Equitix and M&G unit

  • UK lifers reveal more about their matching adjustment investments

    27 April 2021

    And where solvency ratios would go, without the MA

  • Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink

    04 October 2018

    Will insurers find in depleting water resources, and the resulting investment needs, a fresh source of financially-viable investments? Vincent Huck reports

  • Aviva Life purchases two green bonds for £100m

    11 May 2018

    Bonds issued by the developer Tideway to help finance 25km sewer tunnel under River Thames