LCP model puts typical-scheme buy-in pricing 3% better against gilts this year
LCP recorded only one UK pension buy-in above £1bn in the first half.
23 September 2026·2 min read
Market Analysis
35 articlesMarsh barometer: 38% of asset owners plan cash increases, up from 9% in 2025
Some 51% of surveyed asset owners intend to increase infrastructure allocations over the next 12 months.
21 September 2026·1 min read
Financial fragmentation could amplify insurers’ balance-sheet stress in a market shock, Geneva Association finds
When a rate and credit-spread shock is added, modelled capital in one illustrative bloc initially falls by up to 90%.
16 September 2026·3 min read
Annuity providers put £22.8bn into UK productive assets in first two years of £100bn pledge
Private and unlisted assets accounted for 65% of investment, while corporate bonds’ share fell from 63% in 2024 to 46% in 2025.
15 September 2026·2 min read
Fitch puts Bermuda at 85 per cent of US life insurers’ $1.3 trillion offshore reserves
Fitch expects Bermuda to keep most of the offshore pool, 72 per cent of it affiliated at year-end 2025.
14 September 2026·2 min read
Private equity deal and exit counts fall to lowest since Q3 2021, Schroders Capital finds
Deal value held up on large transactions, but breadth across dealmaking and exits narrowed sharply in the second quarter.
13 September 2026·3 min read
Swiss Re sees $200 billion of new P&C premiums from data centre and renewable energy capex by 2030
Swiss Re Institute’s sigma 3/2026 report estimates that AI data centre and renewable energy investment could generate around $200 billion of cumulative...
7 September 2026·2 min read
European and UK insurers’ outsourced assets doubled to $2.1trn since 2021, Clearwater survey shows
Standard Life’s £3bn award to Ninety One last week is the latest of the mandates behind a shift that Clearwater Analytics’ Insurance Investment Outsourcing...
7 September 2026·2 min read
Running investment income makes up most of reinsurers’ 13.8% underlying return, Gallagher Re finds
The broker’s half-year report shows underwriting contributing 3.2 percentage points of the composite’s 13.8% underlying return on equity, with running...
7 September 2026·2 min read
Bermuda life sidecar market quadruples to estimated $375 billion, Morningstar DBRS finds
Morningstar DBRS puts growth at an annual rate of about 32 per cent since 2021 and calls Bermuda by far the largest market for the structures; its...
6 September 2026·2 min read