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The UK pensions bombshell: opportunities among the wreckage?
11 April 2014The UK annuities market is undergoing a dramatic change as the rules on retirement products are rewritten. In this article, Christopher Cundy looks at five major implications for products and strategy
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UK annuity sales to slump by more than 50%
25 March 2014Moody's says alternative products will have lower margins
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Friends Life implements Moody's proxy generator
24 March 2014Will integrate Friends Life's with-profits business with its existing ALM systems
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RSA's Irish losses - bad luck or bad management?
19 March 2014RSA's risk management was put under the spotlight last year by a host of unfortunate events, not least an accounting scandal that contributed to a £200m loss at its Irish division. Exonerated by external auditors, the incident has nonetheless raised questions around RSA's risk culture. Sarfraz Thind reports
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S&P upgrades RSA on back of capital plan
03 March 2014Credit rating has jumped back to 'A' after December downgrade
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Moody's Analytics claims credit modelling first
18 February 2014RiskFrontier 4.0 enables "bottom-up" consideration of credit and interest rate risk for the first time
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European life insurers set to boost illiquid investments
12 February 2014Mortgage and infrastructure loans on the agenda in 2014
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Rating agencies to profit from Solvency II data reporting
11 February 2014Insurers require licences to report asset ratings to regulator
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German life insurers to benefit from cut in maximum rate
15 January 2014Moody's says actuarial decision is positive for firms
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Generali places €1.25bn bond
08 January 2014Issuance was 7.5 times oversubscribed