All Defined benefit articles – Page 11
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NewsOutlook 2023: Keep calm and carry on
There will be pockets of opportunity within equity markets for selective investors in 2024
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OpinionPPF as consolidator poses unanswered questions
Acting as a consolidator would be a new direction for the PPF. What challenges need to be resolved for it to work?
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NewsThe new buyout brigade
The questions trustees should ask when considering an insurance transaction with a new entrant to the market
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NewsSole trusteeship has its downsides
Robert Smith raised his fears during the Work and Pensions Committee.
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OpinionOnly pension reform can save the economy
The pensions system is broken and radical reform is needed. But will the chancellor’s steps be bold enough?
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NewsCompanies could copy a worrying ‘blueprint’ set by BP to offload unwanted pension schemes
BP pension fund stopped linking inflation to payments despite its £6bn surplus
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NewsBleak prospects for women in retirement
Women may not be able to afford basics like food and heating when they retire, thanks to the ‘motherhood penalty’ and the gender pensions gap. What can we do to change things?
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NewsInside the Mansion House summit
The great and the good of the pensions industry gathered at Mansion House to discuss how the reforms might work in practice. PE takes a look behind the curtain.
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NewsUK’s first commercial pension ‘superfund’ deal has been cleared
Move provides a new route for employers to ditch weaker retirement programmes
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NewsMost CFOs are unsure of their DB scheme’s objective
Three quarters of CFOs are struggling to work out their scheme’s end game
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NewsSchemes worried about buyout process
Cost, capacity and lack of interest at top of schemes’ buyout worry lists
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NewsRethinking the DB endgame
DB schemes could be missing a trick by completing insurance transactions, according to new research
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NewsLearning lessons from the gilts crisis
A year on after the historic collapse and bailout of the gilt market, has the pensions industry learnt lessons?
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NewsM&G completes £286m Northern Bank BPA deal
The transaction is the second with M&G's insurance subsidiary Prudential since it returned to the BPA market.
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NewsBPA boom: Who will be next to enter the market?
M&G’s re-entry into the bulk purchase annuity market takes the number of UK providers to nine, with others expected to follow by the end of the year.
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NewsNew online pensions toolkit has been launched to explain GMP equalisation
The free toolkit was developed by Quietroom and a consortium of UK’s largest defined benefit schemes.
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NewsL&G agrees to Cable and Wireless £340m buy-in
Legal & General (L&G) said the deal, worth around £340m with the Cable and Wireless Superannuation fund has secured the benefits of around 1,800 retirees and deferred members and marks the fund's third and final transaction.
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NewsM&G re-enters bulk annuity purchase market
M&G has announced a £331m buy-in transaction of the M&G Group Pension Scheme (M&GGPS), one of the group’s own pension schemes, as well as a £286m bulk annuity transaction for an external scheme.
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News‘Systemic risks’ in rushing to embrace insurer buyouts, warns SPP
In its Vision 2030 report, the Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) warned that insurance buyouts ‘may not always be the answer’ and diversification of endgame options beyond government gilts was needed to secure the long-term future of all pension schemes.
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NewsBBC appeals against High Court ruling
The BBC confirmed there will be no reduction to any pension benefits already built up and nothing will change before the second half of 2024.