Archive

• Regulators investigate the private equity-insurer love-in

  04 February 2022

  Private equity companies have been acquiring insurers at an unheard of rate. Now regulators have raised concerns over asset risk and short-term greed overcoming long-term sense, as Sarfraz Thind reports

• Resolution Re reinsures $5.7bn of US annuity liabilities

  12 September 2018

  Deal with Symetra Life involves structured settlement annuities

• Scottish Widows completes £880m buy-in with Littlewoods pensions

  01 June 2018

  The deal covers nearly 7,000 members

• L'exception française?

  02 August 2016

  The French government is proposing to exempt supplementary pension products from Solvency II capital requirements, a seismic change that will give the sector much needed relief. Hugo Coelho reports

• PRA risks EU court challenge over early warning indicators

  30 April 2013

  But regulator is doing the right thing, says Eversheds