MCEV - Move to MCEV doubles Aviva losses

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The switchover from European Embedded Value (EV) to its market-consistent counterpart (MCEV) has seen UK insurer Aviva record a loss of £2.3 billion in the first six months of 2008 - compared with only a £1.3 billion deficit under the old system, according to the company's half-yearly report.

Aviva is the first major UK group to post its figures using the MCEV metric developed by the Chief Financial Officers Forum, and its use of the risk-free rate to discount annuity business was responsible for

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