{"id":169886,"date":"2025-09-26T05:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169886\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T05:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:02:08","slug":"uk-bulk-annuity-market-cools-in-h1-2025-fitch-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169886\/","title":{"rendered":"UK bulk annuity market cools in H1 2025, Fitch says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK bulk annuity market is dominated by a handful of large players, including Legal &amp; General, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancebusinessmag.com\/uk\/companies\/aviva\/29727\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aviva<\/a>, Rothesay, and Phoenix Group. These firms continue to compete aggressively for deals, while newer entrants are increasing competitive pressure, particularly in the mid-sized and smaller scheme segments. Fitch noted that the long-term fundamentals of the market remain strong, given the continued demand from pension schemes to de-risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK bulk annuity market is dominated by a handful of large players, including Legal &amp; General, Aviva,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[43552,45,49,48,33093,26769,100],"class_list":{"0":"post-169886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-annuities","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-fitch-ratings","13":"tag-life-insurers","14":"tag-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}