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  • Public disclosure is the biggest change for the UK's life insurance stress tests - UPDATED

    12 July 2024

    But reporting will not be timely and may not provide a full picture of insurers' resilience, consultants warn

  • UK's life insurance stress test targets 11 bulk annuity providers

    10 July 2024

    Prudential Regulation Authority consults on tests to be launched in 2025

  • UK matching adjustment benefit rises to £78bn

    09 July 2024

    More business for bulk annuity insurers, as interest rates dip

  • Brookfield applies to set up insurer and enter UK PRT market

    08 July 2024
  • PIC completes £1.2bn buy-in, largest of 2024 so far

    03 July 2024
  • ASR eyes €8bn of Dutch PRT business in next four years

    27 June 2024

    Estimates 40pp increase in solvency ratio from measures including internal model

  • Standard Life drives off with £880m buy-in for Bentley's pension fund

    27 June 2024
  • Phoenix puts SunLife business up for sale

    26 June 2024
  • US Department of Labor recommendations on IB 95-1 likely to please PRT insurers

    26 June 2024

    But bulk annuity sector remains threatened with stricter fiduciary rules

  • PE and insurance: perception versus reality

    21 June 2024

    Private equity and alternative asset manager-owned life insurers have been accused of making risky investments and running opaque businesses intent on making a fast buck. The facts may not bear this out, as Sarfraz Thind reports in the first of a two-part article