Baroness Ros Altmann has tabled an amendment to the UK's Financial Services and Markets Bill that would enable Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)-authorised life insurers to establish, own or operate defined benefit (DB) superfunds outside their core insurance business
Total assets of insurers and insurance asset management companies in China amounted to RMB 43.9trn as of the end of Q2 2026, up by 6.2% from the beginning of the year, latest figures from the National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA) have shown
UK pension bulk annuity volumes for the first half of 2026 are expected to exceed £10bn, surpassing the £9.7bn of transactions completed during the same period last year, according to Aon
Canada Life has completed a £52m full-scheme buy-in transaction, securing the future benefits for 300 pensioner and 130 deferred members in the metals industry
M&G has completed a £100m bulk purchase annuity (BPA) transaction, covering 650 members of a pension scheme sponsored by an unnamed UK financial services company
Following Aon’s Insurance Investment Consultancy of the Year award win at the latest Insurance Asset Management Awards, Editor, Adam Cadle, gathers the latest thoughts from partners, Geoff Bauer and Lin Qu, about the insurance investment space
In Conversation with IAM: Why Insurers Are Turning to Aviva Investors' ReturnPlus
In partnership with IAM, Todd Cutting and Mike Leonard discuss Aviva Investors' ReturnPlus strategy and its potential benefits for insurers. Our short video explores the strategy's key features and explains how it can provide flexibility, improve return on capital, and remove interest rate risk.
Navigating credit markets
Adam Cadle speaks to Jon Mawby, Head of Investment Grade Credit at Pictet Asset Management, about navigating the credit markets given yields have fallen to low levels over the past decades, whilst interest rate duration risk has continued to rise.
Opportunities in alternative fixed income
Adam Cadle speaks to Frank Meijer, Head of Alternative Fixed Income at Aegon Asset Management, about the key opportunities within the alternative fixed income space and how insurers can access these.
Why are government bonds so important when thinking about climate change?
Adam Cadle speaks to Dr Laura Ryan, Head of Research, Ardea Investment Management, about the importance of government bonds and climate change, and how the scope of impact and potential for change couldn't be greater
Setting a New Standard for Benchmarking Private Infrastructure Debt
As private infrastructure debt evolves, confidence comes from evidence. infraMetrics® uses real asset-level data to deliver credit insights and market-based curves where comparables are limited. A benchmark that guides insurers and investors through the uncertainties of today’s macro environment.
