All liabilities articles
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NewsRSA 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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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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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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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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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
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Swiss corporate schemes record average return of 10%, says WTW
The ratio between pension assets to pension liabilities went up quarter-on-quarter to 118.0% as of December 2021 from 117.0% as of September 2021
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Greenpeace shipping crew to join merchant fund, court rules
The verdict means Greenpeace will have to retroactively fund pensions for its shipping crew going back to 1989
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UK Selecta scheme completes £250m buy-in deal
Hymans Robertson was the lead transaction adviser, with legal advice provided by Pinsent Masons
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Fujitsu General UK scheme in buy-in deal with Aviva
The deal secures DB liabilities of £7.7m (€9m) for all deferred plan members and their dependants
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UK DB schemes end turbulent year in strong position, LCP says
LCP’s report found that UK DB schemes ended the year with an aggregate balance sheet surplus of £10bn
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German DAX firms see drop in pension provisions
Pension provisions for Volkswagen’s automotive division fell from €44.2bn in 2020 to €40.1bn so far this year
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ICL Group scheme strikes £3.7bn longevity hedge
The hedge covers pensions in payment for approximately 9,000 members and provides long-term protection against additional costs
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German DAX firms see rise in pension liabilities, says Aon
The discount rate for DAX 30 companies fell further last year to 0.77% from 1.10% in 2019
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Railway company Deutsche Bahn sets €1.1bn aside for pension liabilities
Plus: German actuaries call for lower guarantees (again…); IFA, Union Investment study on inflation-returns link
