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Resolution Re enters the UK PRT funded reinsurance market

The UK's PRA has previously stressed risks involved with funded reinsurance

UK's MA reforms: a fixation on attestation

What do the PRA's proposed requirements for attesting matching adjustment benefits mean for insurers, and will it stop them investing in wider assets? Christopher Cundy and Paul Walsh report

Major barriers to enter the UK bulk annuity market

Barnett Waddingham expert Craig Turnbull explains what it means for BPA entrants

Craig Turnbull joins consultancy Barnett Waddingham

People moves: Google, IFoA, Africa Specialty Risk and Bank of England

InsuranceERM rounds up the latest risk and capital appointments in the insurance industry

Matching adjustment becomes a battleground in UK's Solvency II consultation

Respondents to the UK's consultation on the future of Solvency II have taken starkly opposing positions on the matching adjustment, with some arguing for liberalisation and others for scrapping it. Christopher Cundy reports

UK actuaries take another crack at equity-release mortgage valuation

Valuation of equity-release mortgages (ERMs) is one of the most controversial topics in the UK actuarial community, and the latest update from the working party only makes a small step towards resolving the debate. Christopher Cundy reports

Solvency II risk margin's cost-of-capital rate "a significant error"

Craig Turnbull comments at presentation of IFoA research on risk margin

What's next for the MA and VA?

More than €100bn of capital relief is provided by Solvency II's matching and volatility adjustments, but they are far from uncontroversial. As the European Commission begins to consider reforms, Christopher Cundy reports on the problems and possible solutions

Comment: on the Solvency II matching adjustment and credit risk capital

Craig Turnbull argues whether the matching adjustment results in EU life insurers holding a prudent amount of capital to support the long-term credit default risk in their fixed income portfolios