Glossary
This glossary provides definitions and explanations of key terms, abbreviations and acronyms commonly used by the Company in its annual reports and investor communications.
ABI
Association of British Insurers – Represents the collective interests of the UK's insurance industry.
AGM
Annual General Meeting.
ALM
Asset Liability Management – management of risks that arise due to mismatches between assets and liabilities.
APE
Annual Premium Equivalent – an industry wide measure that is used for measuring the annual equivalent of regular and single premium policies.
CA
Countrywide Assured plc.
CALH
Countrywide Assured Life Holdings Limited and its subsidiary companies.
Chesnara Life UK
Chesnara Life UK limited
Directors or Board
The directors of the Company details of whom can be found on our Board of Directors page.
Dividend yield
Dividend paid as a percentage of the market value of a share.
DPF
Discretionary Participation Feature – A contractual right under an insurance contract to receive, as a supplement to guaranteed benefits, additional benefits whose amount or timing is contractually at the discretion of the issuer.
Dutch Business
Scildon N.V. and Waard Schade N.V.
EEV
European Embedded Value.
FCA
Financial Conduct Authority.
FI
Finansinspektionen, being the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority.
FSMA
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 of England and Wales, as amended.
GCR
Group Capital Resources – in accordance with the UK's regulatory regime for insurers it is the sum of the individual capital resources for each of the regulated related undertakings less the book-value of investments by the Group in those capital resources.
GCRR
Group Capital Resource Requirement – in accordance with the UK's regulatory regime for insurers it is the sum of individual capital resource requirements for the insurer and each of its regulated undertakings.
Group
The Company and its existing subsidiary undertakings.
Guardian
Guardian Assurance plc.
HCL
HCL Insurance BPO Services Limited.
IFRS
International Financial Reporting Standards.
IFA
Independent Financial Adviser.
IGD
Insurance Groups Directive – The European directive setting out the current capital adequacy regime for insurance groups.
KPI
Key performance indicator
London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange plc.
LTICR
Long-Term Insurance Capital Requirement – Capital required to be held for regulatory purposes in respect of investment, expense and insurance risks.
LTI
Long-Term Incentive Scheme – A reward system designed to incentivise employees' long-term performance.
MCEV
Market Consistent Embedded Value.
Movestic
Movestic Livförsäkring AB.
Modernac
Modernac SA, an associated company which is 49% owned by Movestic.
Net cash
This is made up of gross cash (operational cash) plus any additional one-off cash generated from items such as business acquisitions, fund mergers/transfers etc.
Official List
The Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority.
Ordinary Shares
Ordinary shares of five pence each in the capital of the Company.
ORSA
Own Risk and Solvency Assessment.
PRA
Prudential Regulation Authority.
PL
Protection Life Company Limited.
QRT
Quantitative Reporting Template.
RCR
Risk Capital Requirement – additional amounts of capital required to be held for regulatory purposes as a result of two stress tests.
RMF
Risk Management Framework.
Shareholder(s)
Holder of Ordinary Shares.
Solvency I ratio
Solvency I is the regulatory regime in existence during 2015. The regime defines the rules and basis by which capital resources and capital requirements are established. The Solvency I ratio is the ratio between capital resources and capital requirements under the Solvency I regime. Solvency I is replaced by Solvency II as from 1 Jan 2016.
Solvency II
A fundamental review of the capital adequacy regime for the European insurance industry. Solvency II aims to establish a set of EU-wide capital requirements and risk management standards that will replace the current Solvency I requirements.
Solvency II ratio
The ratio between capital resources (Own funds
) and capital requirements calculated under the rules as set out under the Solvency II regime.
STI
Short-Term Incentive Scheme – A reward system designed to incentivise employees' short-term performance.
Surplus capital
The absolute difference between capital resources and capital requirements.
Swedish Business
Movestic and its subsidiaries and associated companies.
S&P
Save & Prosper Insurance Limited and Save & Prosper Pensions Limited.
TCF
Treating Customers Fairly – a central PRA principle that aims to ensure an efficient and effective market and thereby help policyholders achieve a fair deal.
TSR
Total Shareholder Return, measured with reference to both dividends and capital growth.
UK or United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
UK Business
CA, S&P, CASLP and Chesnara Life UK.
VIF
Value of In-force business.