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Chart of the Week: Around the world with SFCRs - MA delivers capital benefits to UK lifers
31 May 2024As MA reform nears, the adjustment is delivering significant capital benefits to UK insurers
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Chart of the Week - The MA's £482bn 'capital gift' to UK lifers (and their CIOs)
21 April 2023UK infrastructure, gilts and credit on the GA menu for most lifers' MA portfolios
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A match, a spark! - the MA ignites UK lifers' investment appetites
02 May 2022The 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
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Royal London reveals first year's benefit using MA
25 April 2022Some 18 UK life undertakings got £76bn capital relief from mechanism, in 2021
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Insurers update SCR ratios hit by investment market falls
06 May 2020Dividend revisions, capital raisings and delays to Part VII transfers also explained in SFCRs. David Walker reports
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Royal London reports 22% increase in AuM for 2019
18 March 2020Expects the coronavirus to be a "short-lived" shock with an eventual economic bounce back
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UK insurers: one big disappointment for private equity managers in 2018
31 December 2019French insurers top rankings of equity investment volumes
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Royal London transfers £1bn to Dublin subsidiary over Brexit fears
06 February 2019Asset management arm of insurer chooses Republic of Ireland as safe haven for European policyholders’ assets
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How regulatory data can unlock the door to competitive advantage
26 June 2018The data in Solvency II quantitative reporting templates can be used to gain insight and edge, David Walker reports.
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Former Standard Life Investments' head of equities joins Aviva Investors
14 December 2017David Cumming appointed CIO for equities