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A bewildering headline -- just how do you "insure [a] DC [section]"? -- quickly clarified in the body of the article: "a £300m defined contribution (DC) plan [was converted] into a defined benefit (DB) arrangement, before then being added to the buy-in deal."

It prompts the question, is it ever possible to insure -- in a meaningful way -- a DC pension scheme? Ignoring life insurance, which may be offered as an adjunct, presumably you'd be looking at an insurer offering to sell deferred annuities to (active) members? I suspect this would be perceived by members as being a prohibitively expensive option. But it would be interesting to know if anyone (i.e. any board of trustees of a DC scheme) has ever looked into the feasibility of this.