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

  • 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

  • Chart of the week - Releasing pressure from Just's MA portfolio

    03 September 2021

    Just's latest sales of lifetime mortgages reinforce an enduring trend to lessen them in its MA

  • Matching adjustment benefit to European life insurers' SCR increases by 9% in 2018

    11 June 2019

    Insurance Risk Data analysis reveals some adventurousness in MA investment portfolios

  • Just Retirement reveals 45% weighting of lifetime mortgages in MA portfolio

    03 June 2019

    PRA wants board to “reconsider” aspects of internal model, Just Group solvency report reveals

  • PIC appoints head of investment risk

    16 June 2017

    Former Partnership Life and Bupa Global risk chief joins UK annuity provider

  • PIC buys into equity release mortgage market

    06 April 2017

    Funding agreement with Retirement Advantage will help diversify the insurer's illiquid portfolio

  • Managing illiquid assets needs banking-like skills

    16 October 2015

    In part two of this InsuranceERM/Insurance Asset Risk and Standard Life Investments roundtable on illiquid assets, experts discuss the management capabilities required and how the assets fit into Solvency II

  • Smoothing the flow in illiquid assets

    09 October 2015

    Illiquid assets have the potential to boost the yield and diversification of insurers' investments, but they are not a shoo-in to the portfolio, as discussed in part one of this InsuranceERM/Insurance Asset Risk and Standard Life Investments roundtable