Archive

  • Take a helicopter view on risks in an interconnected world

    07 December 2020

    Experts discuss how the pandemic is affecting insurers' scenario planning

  • Legal & General completes £530m bulk annuity deal

    19 August 2020

    Transfers risk from Siemens pension fund

  • L&G closes RT1 debt raise at £500m

    22 June 2020

    Notes priced higher than other recent issues

  • Longevity risk modelling: what have we learned from Covid-19?

    17 June 2020

    Cintia Cheong talks to Joseph Lu, Colin Dutkiewicz and Mark Cooper how Covid-19 is impacting longevity and what life re/insurers should consider in their modelling and risk management

  • L&G to issue RT1 debt

    16 June 2020

    Move comes after UK insurer paid full 2019 dividends to shareholders

  • Most UK insurers will pay dividends, despite PRA's letter

    01 April 2020

    Some firms had already planned to withhold capital distribution to shareholders

  • Insurers report declining solvency ratios following Covid-19 hit

    19 March 2020

    Aegon, Zurich and L&G say declines remain manageable for now

  • UK and US pension risk transfer volumes hit records in 2019

    04 February 2020

    Massive deal flow is expected to continue this year, says L&G

  • IFRS 17: what insurers dislike from the final consultation

    24 October 2019

    The treatment of reinsurance accounting under IFRS 17 appears to be the most consistent complaint from re/insurers, but deciding when the standard should take effect continues to generate disagreements among stakeholders. Cintia Cheong reports

  • Credit ratings of three UK insurers under threat with hard Brexit

    04 October 2019

    S&P would examine firms’ sovereign resilience