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  • Second phase of Solvency UK will broaden investment opportunities, L&G group CEO says

    13 December 2023

    Phase two will be a "critical lever", Nigel Wilson says, as phase one is set to become law

  • UK government unveils reforms to prod insurers towards private assets

    11 July 2023

    Six UK insurers sign up to Chancellor of Exchequer's investment aspirations

  • How best to describe a stuff-up? SFCR writers confront Whitehall's gilts-storm

    01 May 2023

    Remember, remember the 23rd of September - when gilt yields exploded, without a mote of gunpowder in sight. David Walker reads how UK insurers revisited the scene in their SFCRs

  • HSBC's "nut job" ESG head quits in protest of cancel culture

    07 July 2022

    Stuart Kirk was suspended for speech attacking climate influence on investing

  • Comment - What insurers can learn from the furore about HSBC AM and climate change

    01 June 2022

    Any insurers arguing climate change doesn't matter are shooting at their own feet

  • L&G's chief executive defends climate free speech

    01 June 2022

    Nigel Wilson supports right to air anti-climate change comments as HSBC's Stuart Kirk fallout continues

  • L&G Capital makes first US investment

    24 May 2022

    With $500m seed capital for a $4bn real estate platform

  • 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

  • Chart of the Week - UK lifers' MA benefit revealed

    29 April 2022

    EIOPA's MA is a £400bn capital gift to UK life insurers

  • Inflows to LGIM hit six-year low as L&G Capital hits another high

    10 March 2021

    L&G Capital seeking £2bn of alternatives, and £9bn assets from external customers