Archive

  • Lloyds seeks to reinvent its bancassurance business with technology push

    21 March 2024

    Apps and new approach to proposition will boost sales, executives say

  • Rothesay swoops for £6bn Scottish Widows bulk annuity portfolio

    13 March 2024

    The deal will enable Lloyds Banking Group to focus on growing other lines of business

  • Scottish Widows doubles individual annuity sales

    22 February 2024

    General insurance premiums also grow, but underwriting remains unprofitable

  • UK bulk annuity market prepares for potentially six more providers

    29 November 2023

    Rumours continue to swirl about firms entering the booming pension risk transfer market, while at the same time, another is considering exiting the sector. Ronan McCaughey and Christopher Cundy report

  • UK life firms' matching adjustment benefit drops to £66bn

    25 April 2023

    Analysis of 2022 year-end reports by Insurance Risk Data

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

    28 June 2022

    Finance ministry acknowledges complexity of changes

  • Europe's life insurers release Covid-19 reserves as pandemic eases

    12 April 2022

    Future mortality improvements likely to be suppressed, insurers report

  • Covid-19 Actuaries Response Group's co-founder receives MBE

    04 January 2022

    Stuart McDonald, Nigel Wilson and Johnny Timpson were recognised in the UK's New Year honours

  • UK insurers reveal climate change readiness in SFCRs

    05 July 2021

    Some divulge extent of rise in claims from climate stress-tests

  • News in brief: Pacific Life Re and Scottish Widows PRT deals

    13 November 2020

    A short summary of this week's major pension risk transfer deals