Archive

  • Legal & General completes £1.8bn pension deal with United Utilities

    19 July 2023

    Bringing total PRT transaction volume up to £6.7bn in the UK year-to-date

  • Fossilised investments

    05 October 2021

    The US insurers' portfolios remain heavily skewed to oil, gas and coal assets. Even as the clamour for net-zero grows, where is the insurance business going with fossil fuels? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • SII reporting delays: thanks but no thanks

    01 April 2020

    As European regulators offer some leeway on Solvency II regulatory reporting deadlines, insurers seem inclined to follow the original schedule. Begging the question of how to account for the COVID-19 impact. David Walker reports

  • Adopting Tunaru's ERM valuation approach "difficult but not impossible"

    14 May 2019

    More work and significant modification needed, says Milliman

  • ETFs for sale

    26 January 2018

    Insurers have been investing in exchange-traded funds (ETF) for some time. But issuing ETFs is a new phenomenon. This idea is currently taking hold in the US and it seems likely to continue to grow as the ETF market expands. So what are the benefits? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Market risk concentrated among six UK non-life players, analysis finds

    12 January 2018

    Insurance Risk Data unearths extra investment data in SFCRs

  • UK insurers can combat expiry of transitionals, say practitioners

    14 July 2017

    Experts say risk margin and transitional measures expiry need not trigger risk asset sell-off, as predicted by the Bank of England

  • Fast-growing RPC Consulting continues hiring spree

    12 December 2016

    Sam Worthington joins from WTW

  • Insurers overestimate business valuation, Milliman research suggests

    26 October 2016

    Consultancy advocates market-consistent embedded value reporting

  • Goodbye gilts as Solvency II shifts asset allocation

    20 January 2016

    Prompted by Solvency II, some insurers have moved out of government bonds and into swaps and short-dated government or corporate bonds. But the swap-based approach is not without its challenges, as Sarfraz Thind reports