Archive

  • BIS becomes latest to warn on PE-insurer and asset intensive reinsurance risks

    18 September 2024

    Bank for International Settlements urges greater cross-border supervision

  • IR&C Americas 2024: The outlook for PRT is rosy

    17 September 2024

    All audience members predict records will be broken

  • Phoenix halts plan to sell SunLife

    16 September 2024

    UK insurer also reports volatile IFRS shareholders' equity figure, and corrects IFRS 17 implementation errors

  • Prudential seals $6bn jumbo PRT deal with IBM

    16 September 2024

    It marks the second risk transfer between the two companies since 2022

  • PIC completes £3bn of bulk annuity deals in H1, says pipeline remains strong

    12 September 2024

    CEO Tracey Blackwell highlights demand for large, complex transactions

  • L&G: combined PRT market volumes for UK and US to hit over £250bn

    06 September 2024

    The insurer said PRT markets in both countries are on track for one of their largest years ever

  • PIC buttons up £1.3bn buy-in deal with Coats Group

    04 September 2024

    The deal involved transferring illiquid assets held by the pension scheme

  • Broadstone praises "gold standard" of insurance in UK pension schemes

    29 August 2024

    But there are signs of slowdown in smaller end of the market

  • Prudential selected for $221m industry-first multi-employer PRT deal

    29 August 2024

    To take on pensions for some 8,700 retirees at Sound Retirement Trust

  • The heat is on for US asset-intensive reinsurance regulations

    29 August 2024

    At its summer meeting, the NAIC put forward proposals for tightening up the supervision of life reinsurance transactions. It could either spoil or secure what is now a very lucrative market. Sarfraz Thind reports