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  • UK revives plan to create pensions superfunds

    11 July 2023

    Plans for regulation revealed in Jeremy Hunt's Mansion House speech

  • Report: insurers eye up potential £30bn BP bulk annuity deal

    10 July 2023

    The transaction would quadruple PIC's £6.5bn buy-in February with RSA Group

  • L&G reveals latest IFRS 17 financials and PRT market activity

    05 July 2023

    Shareholders' equity halved, but a £13.6bn CSM and RA created

  • RGA eyes pension risk transfer and Asian markets as top growth opportunities

    15 June 2023

    US life and health reinsurer looking to alternative capital to finance growth

  • PRA stresses risks of funded reinsurance for UK's bulk annuity writers

    15 June 2023

    Charlotte Gerken has written to chief risk officers explaining the regulator's next steps

  • US bulk annuities market hits $6bn volume for Q1

    18 May 2023

    Legal & General Retirement America estimates new Q1 record, and $23bn of annuities to close in H1

  • COMMENT: Hold back on underwriting bulk annuities... then what?

    03 May 2023

    The UK regulator's warning last week to "exercise moderation" has consequences beyond the insurance market

  • UK bulk annuity market warned of rising illiquid asset risk

    27 March 2023

    Moody's says the risks are driven by the UK's deteriorating economic outlook

  • Bulk annuity market "never more buoyant", says Rothesay chief

    21 March 2023

    UK life insurer wrote £3.3bn of premiums in nine transactions in 2022

  • 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