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