Business

UK Companies Suspend Dividends, Insurers & Pension Funds Affected

UK companies are cancelling dividends in the wake of Corona, which means many insurance companies who have millions invested in the stock market are going to take a haircut on the revenue generated. In turn, […]

Life/Health/Critical illness

Xpension Raises 25m Euros in Series C Funding Round

Investment within the insurtech and fintech sectors continues, despite the Corona outbreak. One area where transformation is overdue is the Life and Pensions sector, where a `buy it, store it and forget it’ approach has […]

Insurance Regulation

EIOPA Publishes Second Report on Insurance & Pensions Investments

The European Insurance and Occupations Pensions Authority (EIOPA), has today published its second report on cost and past performance of insurance-based investments products (IBIPs) and personal pension products (PPPs) in the European Union. The report is published following a request from […]

News

CoronaVirus Hits Pension Assets & Stocks – Liability Deficit Reaches £80bn

Mercer’s Pensions Risk Survey data shows that the accounting deficit of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes for the UK’s 350 largest listed companies increased from £57bn at the end of January 2020 to £68bn on […]

News

Pension Sale Regulation: FCA Dishes Out £23m Fine to The Pru

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today fined The Prudential Assurance Company Limited (Prudential) £23,875,000 for failures related to non-advised sales of annuities. Between July 2008 and September 2017, Prudential’s non-advised annuity business focused on […]

Technology

Dentists Provident Goes Live With Sapiens Software

Sapiens International Corporation, (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS), a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, today announced that Dentists’ Provident, a mutual organization and a leading provider of income protection insurance to dentists […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

Reinsurance: Pru Teams Up With Phoenix on Longevity Agreement

The Prudential Insurance Company of America (PICA), a subsidiary of Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI), a financial services leader with more than $1 trillion in assets under management as of June 30, 2019, with operations in […]