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  • Annuity changes put corporate bonds under pressure

    23 April 2014

    Revisions to the UK's legislation around annuities is causing insurers to rethink investment strategies. Hardeep Dhillon examines the impact on sterling capital markets and demand for assets

  • RMS(one) adds five model partners

    15 April 2014

    Aim is to broaden beyond catastrophe exposures, says RMS CEO

  • ABI and IMA to form new investment entity

    11 April 2014

    Daniel Godfrey to be chief executive

  • The UK pensions bombshell: opportunities among the wreckage?

    11 April 2014

    The UK annuities market is undergoing a dramatic change as the rules on retirement products are rewritten. In this article, Christopher Cundy looks at five major implications for products and strategy

  • Partnership appoints bulk annuities director

    02 April 2014

    Costas Yiasoumi joins specialist UK insurer

  • Reinterpreting the role of the CRO

    01 April 2014

    Despite the growing presence of chief risk officers (CROs) in the senior management teams of European insurers the industry is a long way from a common view of the role, and universally deriving value from it, say Mike Wilkinson and Patricia Mackenzie.

  • Fitch cuts outlook on UK life insurance to negative

    01 April 2014

    Recent events create threats for sector

  • AMG to buy River Road from Aviva Investors

    28 March 2014

    Sale aimed at strengthening third-party manager business

  • Stock market grief continues for specialist annuity providers

    20 March 2014

    But larger insurers bounce back

  • UK life insurers shocked by pensions rule change

    19 March 2014

    Pensioners will no longer have to buy an annuity at retirement