The appointment of Andrew Bailey to head up the Financial Conduct Authority has set off a chain of consequences across the City regulators, including the Bank of England.

The last few years have seen a mushrooming forest of regulation – not just Solvency II – that insurers need to understand and assimilate into their business model and investment strategy.

European insurers are unlikely to be able to generate sufficient investment returns in future to meet the guaranteed rates offered on many of their regular savings products, according to a new survey by Standard Life Investments.

We are delighted to announce that the Insurance Investment Exchange has won the ‘Insurance Event of the Year’ award at the inaugural Insurance Marketing and PR Awards 2015

On the face of it, investing in infrastructure projects should hold obvious appeal for insurance companies, particularly those on the life and annuity side.

The Insurance Investment Exchange events in March and May 2015 tackled a key dilemma for insurance companies: in today’s environment of challenged yields and regulatory change, where does the fixed income portfolio evolve to next? This thought leadership paper from summer 2015 echoes the ensuing debate