Archive

  • Understanding Solvency II's new transitional measures

    13 March 2014

    Solvency II may have an official implementation date of 1 January 2016, but insurers are being given years to get their house in order. Alison Matthews outlines the key transitional provisions recently introduced to the legislation, focusing on the tricky question of equivalence

  • Prudential starts reporting capital on Solvency II basis

    12 March 2014

    Solvency II coverage ratio of 257% slightly less than IGD ratio of 280%

  • Balbinot: Solvency II's delegated acts "deviate from intentions"

    12 March 2014

    Draft acts are not what legislators intended, says Insurance Europe president

  • Prudential returns to bulk annuity market with £100m buy-in

    11 March 2014

    Deal covers 70% of Church Workers Pension Fund's members

  • Solvency II equivalence rules seen as "provocation" by US reinsurers

    11 March 2014

    US reinsurers may be disadvantaged compared with European peers

  • European Parliament approves Omnibus II

    11 March 2014

    MEPs warn that delegated acts need close attention

  • RSA appoints new Irish chief

    10 March 2014

    Former Irish CEO Philip Smith resigned claiming he was a "fall guy"

  • Restricting access to health data creates competition issue

    07 March 2014

    Changing 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

  • Rothesay Life completes £123m pension buy-in

    07 March 2014

    First deal since acquisition of MetLife's £3bn UK bulk annuity portfolio

  • Martin Clarke to be UK Government Actuary

    07 March 2014

    Will replace the retiring Trevor Llanwarne