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  • UK pension risk transfer volumes hit £44.7bn in 2022

    21 March 2023

    LCP says Legal & General had the highest share of the UK bulk annuity market

  • UK pension risk deals may reach £600bn this decade, says PIC's chief

    20 March 2023

    Tracy Blackwell said the UK pension risk transfer market has huge potential

  • PIC sees pension risk transfer market of £30bn over next year

    21 November 2022

    Rise in gilt yields making headline liabilities smaller

  • PIC appoints Nick Watkins as chief actuary

    12 July 2022
  • Rishi Sunak meets UK annuity writers, promises speedy reform to Solvency II

    28 June 2022

    Finance ministry acknowledges complexity of changes

  • Insurers happy with UK's Solvency II plans, but capital savings remain uncertain

    28 April 2022

    The government has grabbed positive headlines with its proposals to reform Solvency II, but the industry is cautious about the how they will pan out. Cintia Cheong reports

  • PIC's Giles Fairhead: traditional risks are colliding with global events

    19 April 2022

    Paul Walsh sits down with PIC's CRO Giles Fairhead to reflect on today's heightened risk environment, the post-pandemic work culture and two crucial regulatory reforms for the UK's pension insurers

  • Third-party risk rules put supplier relationships in the spotlight

    30 March 2022

    Ronan McCaughey investigates how the UK's regulatory requirements on third-party risk management - which come into effect on 31 March - are changing how insurers do business

  • UK Solvency II reforms warmly welcomed by life insurers

    22 February 2022

    The changes would include cuts to the risk margin for life insurers of 60-70%, while capital held by life insurers could be slashed by 15%. Paul Walsh and Cintia Cheong get the market's reaction

  • Solvency II is affecting our competitiveness, says PIC

    07 January 2022

    CFO-designate Dominic Veney sets out the case for post-Brexit reform of the regulation