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'Viva Espana!' Spain's lifers praise the big match[ing adjustment]
15 July 2024Spaniards' SFCRs spoke of better risk and liquidity management from using the MA in 2023
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The sun shines again on Spanish general accounts
08 May 2023As fixed income yields rise, Spanish insurers' CIOs may reflect happily on their 76% weighting to fixed interest interests - and smile again, David Walker writes
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Chart of the Week - When the MA goes 'the wrong way' for Spanish lifers
28 April 2023Ideally the MA, with life liabilities backed by predictable income assets, should improve users' capital coverage. Often, that's not been so in Spain.
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How the matching adjustment has 'misfired' at many Spanish lifers
27 April 2023The MA has saved UK lifers truly vast sums of Solvency II capital. In Spain it's delivered some very mixed outcomes, David Walker reports.