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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