With UK government borrowing higher than at any time outside of wartime, the Chancellor will have to move to cut the deficit: the question is when and how, says Carl Emmerson, deputy director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

We are delighted to share with you a new paper by M&G Investments, which examines residential mortgages and consumer loans, a fast growing area of interest for insurers given the current constrained yield environment.

The final Insurance Investment Exchange event of the year showed that insurance company investment chiefs will be looking to hold their nerve through the current volatility.

The prospect of UK clearing houses losing direct access to the EU moved ominously closer following a bullish statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak.

Those charged with managing the assets of major insurers have seen levels of volatility over this year that have tested the resilience of their portfolios. Steering a course through the pandemic as its second wave sweeps across most of the developed world is going to test that resilience further.

New European Union proposals for imposing clear standards on the rapidly growing green bonds market have been welcomed by insurers.