Insurance – Page 3
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NewsRothesay Life to raise £500m in preparation for DB insurance deals
Plus: Legal & General has insured a UK law firm’s £35m scheme, transferring from its fiduciary management business
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One third of European insurers expect to cut number of external asset managers
Only €100bn-plus firms foresee an increase in manager numbers in the next one or two years, according to Cerulli Associates research
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Tracy Blackwell, Pension Insurance Corporation
The financial services industry is one of the least trusted in the UK. The Purpose of Finance project aims to address issues of trust and reform
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High Court blocks £12bn Prudential-Rothesay annuities transfer
Unusual judgement could increase insurer appetite for pension buy-ins or buyouts, says expert
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Cadbury Mondelēz takes a bite out of liabilities with £520m buy-in
Deal with Rothesay Life is pension scheme’s second buy-in in 10 years as insurers process busy pipeline of de-risking transactions
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Chemical company scheme secures €820m insurance deal with NN Group
Chemours has transferred roughly 3,000 deferred members to insurer Nationale-Nederlanden, while active members will be moved to an APF
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British Steel buyout ‘could affect pension insurance market capacity’
British Steel Pension Scheme trustees are reportedly in early stage talks regarding a pension risk transfer deal to secure the pensions of its 81,000 members
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L&G launches blockchain-based pension insurance platform [updated]
Legal & General has teamed up with Amazon to develop a blockchain-based pension risk transfer process, dubbed Estua-re
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Actuaries: Different discount rates for pension funds and insurers ‘illogical’
Dutch pension schemes’ funding ratio would rise by 6 percentage points on average if schemes were allowed to apply insurers’ discount rate
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NewsSwiss pension funds bounce back from 2018 losses
The average funding ratio of Swiss Pensionskassen declined by more than 5 percentage points during 2018 after the fourth-quarter equity crash
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BaFin approves sale of Generali life insurance arm to Viridium
Members’ interests “sufficiently safeguarded” in takeover, says supervisor
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PIMCO launches insurance-linked securities business
Fixed-income specialist partners with parent Allianz for push into the alternative asset class
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PGGM to invest €880m in specialist reinsurer
Joint venture with RenaissanceRe targets US property
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‘ESG will not happen’ if Solvency II comes to pension funds: Leppälä
Risk-based capital requirements would limit sustainability-supportive investments, PensionsEurope claims
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NewsAccounting roundup: IASB vice-chair flags insurance asset concerns
Plus: FRC sets out 2019 priorities; Sharon Bowles grills government over accountancy conflicts
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Generali pensions unit targets cross-border, risk transfer markets
Generali Global Pension will offer de-risking solutions and cross-border plans to multinationals
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Aviva gets green light for €4bn pension fund launch in France
‘Aviva Retraite Professionnelle’ is first FRPS vehicle to launch since 2016 reform
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Insurers hungry for risk as geopolitical jitters abate: BlackRock survey
Proportion of insurers looking to increase risk rises to half, from 9% a year earlier
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UK DB deficits could halve via new risk transfers, derivatives: report
Hymans Robertson advocates use of emerging “end-game” insurance products
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Bankrupt UK retailer’s pension fund secures €895m insurance buyout
Pension Insurance Corporation insures benefits of BHS scheme after two years of public scrutiny of former owners
