Archive

  • Hymans Robertson appoints head of general insurance

    17 September 2024

    Krish Kistnassamy's responsibilities to include supporting capital, risk, and asset-liability management

  • Aviva completes £100m buy-in with Greggs pension scheme

    31 July 2024

    Deal covers the majority of plan's liabilities

  • PIC completes £870m full buy-in of the De Beers UK Pension Scheme

    03 April 2024

    Secures pensions of 1,464 current pensioners and 473 deferred members

  • Pricing no longer sole criteria of insurer PRT selection, Hymans Robertson says

    29 November 2023

    Record-breaking numbers in PRT market drawing new insurance entrants and broadening schemes' demands

  • The gilts crisis silver lining

    18 October 2022

    The UK financial market crisis has not been pretty for most investors. But while the overleveraged have suffered the current market downturn may actually benefit insurers in the long run. Ronan McCaughey and Sarfraz Thind report

  • Consultants launch net-zero initiative

    20 September 2021

    Setting out nine actions to reach net zero by 2050

  • With-profits investment industry ripe for consolidation

    23 August 2021

    Turbulent H1 2020 led to reappraisal of products, Hymans Robertson predicts

  • COVID-19 model drift warning for insurers

    14 August 2020

    Market risks may need calibration, says Hymans Robertson

  • Solvency II's VA mechanism too good a tool in COVID-19 times

    08 July 2020

    Often hailed as ineffective the Solvency II's volatility adjustment rules have served insurers well against the impact of COVID-19 on markets in the first half of 2020, but could it have served them too well? Stephanie Harris reports

  • MA rule provides some protection against COVID-19

    24 April 2020

    But BBB bonds and real asset holdings might be a thorn in insurers' foot