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  • UK's life insurance stress test targets 11 bulk annuity providers

    10 July 2024

    Prudential Regulation Authority consults on tests to be launched in 2025

  • UK matching adjustment benefit rises to £78bn

    09 July 2024

    More business for bulk annuity insurers, as interest rates dip

  • Solvency II risk margin reform liberates at least £13bn of capital for UK insurers

    13 May 2024

    InsuranceERM analysis of top 20 insurers reveal companies with largest savings

  • Lloyds seeks to reinvent its bancassurance business with technology push

    21 March 2024

    Apps and new approach to proposition will boost sales, executives say

  • Rothesay swoops for £6bn Scottish Widows bulk annuity portfolio

    13 March 2024

    The deal will enable Lloyds Banking Group to focus on growing other lines of business

  • Scottish Widows doubles individual annuity sales

    22 February 2024

    General insurance premiums also grow, but underwriting remains unprofitable

  • UK bulk annuity market prepares for potentially six more providers

    29 November 2023

    Rumours continue to swirl about firms entering the booming pension risk transfer market, while at the same time, another is considering exiting the sector. Ronan McCaughey and Christopher Cundy report

  • UK life firms' matching adjustment benefit drops to £66bn

    25 April 2023

    Analysis of 2022 year-end reports by Insurance Risk Data

  • Rishi Sunak meets UK annuity writers, promises speedy reform to Solvency II

    28 June 2022

    Finance ministry acknowledges complexity of changes

  • Europe's life insurers release Covid-19 reserves as pandemic eases

    12 April 2022

    Future mortality improvements likely to be suppressed, insurers report