L&G Full Year Results 2019 Part 3

Legal & General Group Plc

Full Year Results 2019 Part 3

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4.01 LGIM Total assets under management¹ (AUM)

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4.02 LGIM Total assets under management¹ half-yearly progression

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4.02 LGIM Total assets under management¹ half-yearly progression (continued)

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4.03 LGIM Total external assets under management and net flows

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4.05 Assets under administration

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4.07 LGR new business

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5.01 Group regulatory capital - Solvency II

The group complies with the requirements established by the Solvency II Framework Directive, as adopted by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) in the UK and to measure and monitor its capital resources on this basis.

The Solvency II results are estimated and unaudited. Further explanation of the underlying methodology and assumptions are set out in the sections below.

The group calculates its Solvency II capital requirements using a Partial Internal Model. The vast majority of the risk to which the group is exposed is assessed on the Partial Internal Model basis approved by the PRA. Capital requirements for a few smaller entities are assessed using the Standard Formula basis on materiality grounds. The group's US insurance businesses are valued on a local statutory basis, following the PRA's approval to use the Deduction and Aggregation method of including these businesses in the group solvency calculation.

The table below shows the "shareholder view" of the group Own Funds, Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) and Surplus Own Funds, based on the Partial Internal Model, Matching Adjustment and Transitional Measures on Technical Provisions (TMTP) (recalculated as at end December 2019).

The "shareholder view" basis excludes the contribution that the with-profits fund and the final salary pension schemes would normally make to the group position. This is reflected by reducing the group's Own Funds and the group's SCR by the amount of the SCR for the with-profits fund and the final salary pension schemes.

On a proforma basis, which includes the contribution of with-profits fund and that of the final salary pension schemes in the group's Own Funds and corresponding SCR in the group's SCR, the coverage ratio at 31 December 2019 is 179% (31 December 2018: 181%).

On 6 December 2017 the group announced the sale of its Mature Savings business to ReAssure Limited (a subsidiary of Swiss Re). ReAssure Limited assumed the economic exposure of the business from 1 January 2018 via a risk transfer agreement. It is expected that the formal transfer of the business will be completed in 2020, subject to satisfaction of normal conditions for a transaction including court sanction. The transfer will be effected by way of a Part VII transfer under the Financial Services markets Act 2000. The impact of the risk transfer agreement is reflected in both Own Funds and SCR.

On 31 May 2019, the group announced the sale of its General Insurance business to Allianz and the transaction completed on 31 December 2019, improving the Group's Solvency II coverage ratio by c.1%.

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5.01 Group regulatory capital - Solvency II (continued)

 (b) Methodology

Own Funds comprise the excess of the value of assets over the liabilities, as valued on a Solvency II basis. Subordinated debt issued by the group is considered to be part of available capital, rather than a liability, as it is subordinate to policyholder claims. Own Funds include deductions in relation to fungibility and transferability restrictions, where the surplus Own Funds of a specific group entity cannot be freely transferred around the group due to local legal or regulatory constraints.

Assets are valued at IFRS fair value with adjustments to remove intangibles and deferred acquisition costs, and to value reassurers' share of technical provisions on a basis consistent with the liabilities on the Solvency II balance sheet.

Liabilities are valued on a best estimate market consistent basis, with the application of a Solvency II Matching Adjustment for valuing annuity liabilities. Own Funds incorporate changes to the Internal Model and Matching Adjustment during 2019 and the impacts of a recalculation of the TMTP as at end December 2019. The recalculated TMTP of £5.7bn (31 December 2018: £5.2bn) is net of amortisation to 31 December 2019.

The liabilities include a Risk Margin of £5.9bn (31 December 2018: £5.5bn) which represents an allowance for the cost of capital for a purchasing insurer to take on the portfolio of liabilities and residual risks that are deemed to be not hedgeable under Solvency II. This is calculated using a cost of capital of 6% as prescribed by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA).

The Solvency Capital Requirement is the amount of capital required to cover the 1-in-200 worst projected future outcome in the year following the valuation, allowing for realistic management and policyholder actions and the impact of the stress on the tax position of the group. This allows for diversification between the different firms within the group and between the risks to which they are exposed.

All material EEA insurance firms, including Legal and General Assurance Society Limited (LGAS) and Legal and General Assurance (Pensions Management) Limited, are incorporated into the group's Solvency II Internal Model assessment of required capital, assuming diversification of the risks between and within those firms. These firms, as well as the non-EEA insurance firm (Legal & General Reinsurance Company Limited (LGRe) based in Bermuda) contribute over 93% of the group's SCR.

Insurance firms for which the capital requirements are less material are valued on a Solvency II Standard Formula basis. Firms which are not regulated but which carry material risks to the group's solvency are modelled in the Internal Model on the basis of applying an appropriate stress to their net asset value.

Legal & General America's Banner Life and its subsidiaries (LGA) are incorporated into the calculation of group solvency using a Deduction and Aggregation basis. All risk exposure in these firms is valued on a local statutory basis, with capital requirements set to a multiple of local statutory Risk Based Capital (RBC) and further restrictions on the surplus contribution to the group. The US regulatory regime is considered to be equivalent to Solvency II by the European Commission. The contribution to group SCR is 150% of the local Company Action Level RBC (CAL RBC). The contribution to group's Own Funds is the SCR together with any surplus capital in excess of 250% of CAL RBC.

All non-insurance regulated firms are included using their current regulatory surplus.

Allowance is made within the Solvency II balance sheet for the group's defined benefit pension schemes using results on an IFRS basis. Within the SCR an allowance is made by stressing the IFRS result position using the same Internal Model basis as for the insurance firms.

(c) Assumptions

The calculation of the Solvency II balance sheet and associated capital requirements requires a number of assumptions, including:

(i)   assumptions required to derive the present value of best estimate liability cash flows. Non-market assumptions are consistent with those underlying the group's IFRS disclosures, but with the removal of any prudence margins. Future investment returns and discount rates are those defined by EIOPA, which means that the risk free rates used to discount liabilities are market swap rates, with an 11 basis point (2018: 10 basis points) deduction to allow for a credit risk adjustment for sterling denominated liabilities. For annuities that are eligible, the liability discount rate includes a Matching Adjustment. This Matching Adjustment varies between LGAS and LGRe and by the currency of the relevant liabilities.

At 31 December 2019 the Matching Adjustment for UK GBP was 110 basis points (31 December 2018: 138 basis points) after deducting an allowance for the EIOPA fundamental spread equivalent to 53 basis points (31 December 2018: 52 basis points).

(ii)  assumptions regarding management actions and policyholder behaviour across the full range of scenarios. The only management actions allowed for are those that have been approved by the Board and are in place at the balance sheet date;

(iii)  assumptions regarding the volatility of the risks to which the group is exposed. Assumptions have been set using a combination of historic market, demographic and operating experience data. In areas where data is not considered robust, expert judgement has been used; and

(iv)  assumptions on the dependencies between risks, which are calibrated using a combination of historic data and expert judgement.

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5.01 Group regulatory capital - Solvency II (continued)

 (d) Analysis of change