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Fitch cuts outlook on UK life insurance to negative
01 April 2014Recent events create threats for sector
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FCA to focus on seven market risks
31 March 2014Annuities to come under further fire
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L&G secures £3bn bulk annuity policy
26 March 2014Largest ever UK pensions buy-in contract
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Stock market grief continues for specialist annuity providers
20 March 2014But larger insurers bounce back
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Restricting access to health data creates competition issue
07 March 2014Changing rules on access to UK national health data may have consequences for actuarial research and could make it harder to develop new products - and for new entrants to break into life insurance markets. Christopher Cundy reports
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Swiss Re, Scor and Munich Re share in Aviva's £5bn longevity risk swap
06 March 2014Largest longevity deal with pension fund to date
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L&G trebles bulk annuity business
05 March 2014More growth expected in bulk than individual annuity markets
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Actuarial paper at centre of health data storm
25 February 2014UK health records may be inaccessible to actuaries in future
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FCA dices with actuaries in annuity profits probe
14 February 2014The UK's Financial Conduct Authority wants to make the annuity markets more competitive, but tackling excess profitability and price differentiation may be a bigger challenge than it thinks. Christopher Cundy reports
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"A year of two halves" for 2013 mortality rates
03 February 2014England and Wales data shows big disparity between first and second halves of the year