Archive

  • FCA to focus on seven market risks

    31 March 2014

    Annuities to come under further fire

  • L&G secures £3bn bulk annuity policy

    26 March 2014

    Largest ever UK pensions buy-in contract

  • Stock market grief continues for specialist annuity providers

    20 March 2014

    But larger insurers bounce back

  • Restricting access to health data creates competition issue

    07 March 2014

    Changing rules on access to UK national health data may have consequences for actuarial research and could make it harder to develop new products - and for new entrants to break into life insurance markets. Christopher Cundy reports

  • Swiss Re, Scor and Munich Re share in Aviva's £5bn longevity risk swap

    06 March 2014

    Largest longevity deal with pension fund to date

  • L&G trebles bulk annuity business

    05 March 2014

    More growth expected in bulk than individual annuity markets

  • Actuarial paper at centre of health data storm

    25 February 2014

    UK health records may be inaccessible to actuaries in future

  • FCA dices with actuaries in annuity profits probe

    14 February 2014

    The UK's Financial Conduct Authority wants to make the annuity markets more competitive, but tackling excess profitability and price differentiation may be a bigger challenge than it thinks. Christopher Cundy reports

  • "A year of two halves" for 2013 mortality rates

    03 February 2014

    England and Wales data shows big disparity between first and second halves of the year

  • Annuity firms need own view of longevity improvement

    29 January 2014

    Individual UK annuity providers should confront the fact that their exposures to longevity risk from people living longer may be materially different from those indicated by the UK Office for National Statistics figures, says Matthew Edwards