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

  • Royal London reveals first year's benefit using MA

    25 April 2022

    Some 18 UK life undertakings got £76bn capital relief from mechanism, in 2021

  • Insurers update SCR ratios hit by investment market falls

    06 May 2020

    Dividend revisions, capital raisings and delays to Part VII transfers also explained in SFCRs. David Walker reports

  • Royal London reports 22% increase in AuM for 2019

    18 March 2020

    Expects the coronavirus to be a "short-lived" shock with an eventual economic bounce back

  • UK insurers: one big disappointment for private equity managers in 2018

    31 December 2019

    French insurers top rankings of equity investment volumes

  • Royal London transfers £1bn to Dublin subsidiary over Brexit fears

    06 February 2019

    Asset management arm of insurer chooses Republic of Ireland as safe haven for European policyholders’ assets

  • How regulatory data can unlock the door to competitive advantage

    26 June 2018

    The data in Solvency II quantitative reporting templates can be used to gain insight and edge, David Walker reports.

  • Former Standard Life Investments' head of equities joins Aviva Investors

    14 December 2017

    David Cumming appointed CIO for equities