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• Dark clouds gather over secondary market for MA assets

  09 January 2017

  The prospect of a secondary market for MA assets has taken a number of blows as comparisons are drawn to the synthetic CDO market. That may be enough for regulators to stop even a small, illiquid market developing. Callum Tanner reports

• Insurers predict secondary market for matching adjustment assets

  20 October 2016

  But some fear regulators will be wary of systemic risks

• Matching adjustment rules are tying asset managers in knots

  19 October 2016

  Investment managers need freedom to exercise skills, experts say

• Risk margin reform needed to save insurers from hedging dilemma

  13 June 2016

  Hedging stabilises Solvency II figures at the expense of IFRS