Browsing: 2025 – November
New PRA discussion paper provides insight into the UK regulator’s thinking on potential reforms to the existing ISPV regime.
The life insurance stress test initiative this year finds the UK life insurance industry’s collective solvency coverage ratio to be well above regulatory requirements.
The past four decades have brought revolutionary improvements in cancer care, transforming many forms of cancer from fatal diagnoses into chronic, manageable conditions.
Deal is the second step in the BBC Pension Scheme’s phased longevity hedging programme.
Finalised in September 2025, the transaction provides long-term security for the benefits of nearly 10,000 members and secures all remaining uninsured defined benefits in the plan.
Total new annualized life insurance premium in the US increased 16% year over year to $4.3bn in the third quarter, according to LIMRA’s preliminary individual life insurance sales results.
The aggregate surplus of the 4,969 schemes in the Pension Protection Fund’s 7800 Index increased by £16.2bn through October 2025, rising to £271.3bn in surplus, and the funding ratio rose by 0.7 percentage points to 129.8% and the number of schemes in surplus rose to 3,844, representing more than three-quarters (77.4%) of all schemes in the universe.
Changes to the NCOIL life settlement model act in the past 25 years have been beneficial to the life settlement market but educating consumers, policyholders and investors remains the rising tide that will lift all boats.
A year after the UK Pensions Regulator’s code of practice on funding for defined benefit (DB) pension schemes was launched, the UK’s pension risk transfer market remains buoyant, suggesting the guidance has had little material effect on deals.
Within the life settlement industry, the medical record review has long remained one of the most resource-intensive and time-consuming stages of the process but recent advancements in automation and artificial intelligence, however, are beginning to change this dynamic.