All liabilities articles
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NewsGerman companies pressed to fast-track Pensionsfonds transfers before tax cuts
Mercer urges German companies to fast-track any planned expansion of direct pension promises or benefit upgrades
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NewsAstraZeneca favours buyouts to offload German DB liabilities
Pharmaceutical group rules out consolidating its German pension plans due to impracticalities
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NewsUK bulk annuity sector ‘resilient to severe market shock’, stress test finds
PRA to consider whether further action is needed to ensure the regulatory capital treatment of FundedRe transactions is appropriate
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NewsMercer widens pension consultancy reach in DACH region
The consultancy has joined forces with Vienna-based SLG Treasury
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NewsLufthansa lands LDI strategy to €9.14bn portfolio as it builds on bonds allocation
Fixed income allocations rose to 49.7% at the end of 2024 from 37.6%, while equity allocations fell over the same period from 34.5% to 24.7%
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NewsNN Life & Pensions in €4bn longevity reinsurance deal with Prudential Financial
The reinsurance deal covers around 96,000 policyholders and was arranged through PFI’s primary US insurance subsidiary
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NewsMMC UK fund in £1.9bn in bulk purchase annuity deal with Standard Life
The buy-in deal covers 6,500 members of the Sedgwick Section of the MMC UK Pension Fund
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NewsWTW Pensionsfonds to manage €500m in Traton pension assets
WTW takes over €500m in pension assets of Traton, the commercial vehicle manufacturer and subsidiary of Volkswagen Group
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NewsGerman firms ramp up pension buyout activity
WTW and Vedra see robust interest from corporates aiming to reduce financial risk and remove pension obligations from their books
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: How should institutional investors insulate from poor private equity performance?
2024 was by many measures another poor year for private equity. Against the backdrop of flat industry assets under management and falling capital raised, annual exits have now fallen to 50% of the levels seen in 2022. Cash distributions, aided by a range of financial engineering techniques rather than true ...
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AnalysisAre investors mis-valuing corporate sustainability?
‘Valuation techniques are evolving and starting to integrate more information than they did in the past,’ says professor
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NewsAQA Education completes £120m full scheme buy-in with Rothesay
The transaction insures the benefits of all 869 scheme members, comprising 471 pensioners and dependants, as well as 398 deferred members
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NewsFunding Solutions completes German pension buyout as market momentum builds
The latest pension buyout deal is with automotive supplier Sinterwerke Herne
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NewsFunding resilience and strategic reallocation drive German pensions
WTW estimates that DAX companies faced a combined cost of €250m in 2024 to adjust pensions for inflation
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NewsPension funds foresee increased risk to assets and liabilities in 2025
77% of pension fund executives surveyed by Ortec Finance say they expect the coming year to bring an elevated risk profile
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NewsSwiss corporate schemes under stress while risk of persistent low interest rates returns
Corporate schemes’ assets went up by 1.5%, partially offsetting increasing liabilities, but funding ratios fell to 120.9% in December 2024, from 121.1% in September 2024
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NewsGermany’s AfD backs DC plans as party policies raise deindustrialisation fears
Supporting small companies remains ‘a central political matter’ to amplify the breadth of company pension schemes, the party claims
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NewsTPT Investment Management launches LDI solution for DB schemes
Solution is designed to enable schemes to implement robust long-term funding strategies focused on their endgame objectives
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AnalysisWhy pension buyout deals in Germany still struggle to take off
German companies are still reluctant to implement pension buyout projects, especially when it comes to large volumes of obligations, says PwC
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NewsGerman actuaries back reform to set stable discount rates on pension liabilities
German Institute of Pension Actuaries believes a discount rate should reflect long-term inflation expectations and real interest rates
