All liabilities articles
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News
CMI ignores mortality data for pandemic years
Continuous Mortality Investigation places no weight on the data for 2020 and 2021 in the core version of its 2023 Mortality Projections Model
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Lower rates overshadow further €500m transfer to Siemens Pensionsfonds
Liabilities increase to €1.5bn despite good returns due to lower rates
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Special Report
Risk transfer special report: Pension liabilities shift to insurers
New players are waiting to enter the UK pension risk transfer market but this will depend on how accommodating Solvency UK will be
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Special Report
AllianzGI partners with DBR to offer pension risk transfer
A new joint venture allows corporates to offload pension obligations to an innovative corporate structure
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News
German corporate pension funds see increased liabilities
Corporate pension obligations have already increased by around 17% at the end of 2023 compared with the previous year
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South Yorkshire pension fund delivers surplus of assets over liabilities
This is the first time South Yorkshire Pensions Authority delivered surplus of assets over liabilities since 1990s
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BT Pension Scheme signs £5bn longevity swap deal
The deal signed with Reinsurance Group of America will cover £5bn of BT pensioner liabilities
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DACH roundup: Swiss pension funds returns 4.6% in H1
Plus: WTW warns of liabilities for Swiss corporate schemes; GDV’s report on occupational schemes, insurers; Institutional investors back KKA Partners fund
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News
DACH roundup: BaFin approves Complementa’s advisory services in Germany
Plus: Pension liabilities of Swiss largest firms shoot up; German Pensionskassen free from additional guarantee reserves
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DACH roundup: WTW warns Swiss schemes to review asset managers, custodians after banking crisis
Plus: DWS starts coal phase-out; German pension funds invest in UN agriculture programme
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RSA Group completes £6.5bn buy-in deal with Pension Insurance Corporation
This makes it the largest ever bulk annuity transaction from pension schemes to insure
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Investment returns fail to match liabilities for 30% of Dutch pension funds – research
Small sector schemes score especially badly in the study performed by the new website overrendement.nl
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News
Arcadia Group in £850m buy-in deal with Aviva
Further work is being carried out to determine the future level of pension increases for members of the senior executives scheme
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News
Swiss corporate pension funding decline can lead to take recovery measures, says WTW
Rising discount rates, instead, had a positive impact on companies’ international balance sheets
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Swiss pension funds post -12% returns in difficult 2022
Technical funding ratios of Swiss schemes lost on average around 16 percentage points and stood at 103.9% at the end of 2022
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Market for transferring pension schemes to insurers set to ‘skyrocket’
‘The industry simply does not have the operational bandwidth,’ says LCP
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News
UK roundup: Cobham scheme completes £530m buy-in
Plus: DB deficits could be a thing of the past; £1.3trn wiped off value of UK bonds since start of 2022
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Consolidation in UK pensions market – what are the options?
Will there be an increase in pension scheme consolidation in the UK market and will it lead to increased investment in alternative ESG assets? Consolidation could provide the collateral to invest in greater ESG assets.
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News
Pension liabilities for DAX companies fall by 28.6% in Q2
‘Pension plans of individual companies could even be overfunded,’ says WTW
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UK DB schemes maintain surplus despite fall in asset and liability values
Plus: UK-listed companies with DB schemes see profit warnings increase