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NewsUK roundup: GKN Group completes £513m pensions buy-in deal with Just Group
Plus: PMI hires Scottish Widows as master trust insight partner
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GKN pension scheme trustees strike deal with Melrose
Trustees satisfied ‘firm commitments’ of support in place regardless of outcome to battle
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GKN warns on pension scheme covenant if takeover proceeds
Higher debt levels at Melrose could affect pension arrangements in UK and Germany, GKN claims
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GKN seals £190m buyout with Pension Insurance Corporation
Engineering firm continues de-risking exercise for UK pension scheme
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GKN pension trustees flag deficit as hostile takeover bid emerges
Melrose seeks to reassure trustees that existing pension contributions will be “fully safeguarded”
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GKN swaps Watson Wyatt for Dutch Cardano
[15:00 CET 27-02] UK – The £2bn (€2.64bn) GKN Group Pension Scheme has tapped Dutch consultant Cardano to manage a £300m discrete portfolio of active equity investments, previously held by Watson Wyatt.
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UK roundup: F&C, JP Morgan custody, GKN, DB closures
UK – F&C Asset Management has announced plans to acquire specialist investment firm Thames River Capital, while JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services has been awarded two custody mandates.
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UK roundup: Regulator fines public scheme over data failure
Also: Pension freedom withdrawals hit record high, GKN shuts DB scheme
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UK roundup: Regulator to investigate third-pillar system
Plus: Melrose boasts of pension track record in GKN takeover offer; FTSE 350 deficits fall in January
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UK’s GKN sees “insignificant” FRS17 impact
UK – Engineering company GKN said the new FRS17 accounting standard would have had an “insignificant” impact on its profit and loss account if it had used the standard to calculate its current pension liabilities.
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NewsBulk annuity volumes reach £27.8bn, according to Aon
LCP and Hymans Robertson numbers differ slightly, but point to same upward direction
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UK roundup: £41bn LGPS pool appoints third-party operator
Plus: GKN-Melrose latest; Northern Ireland scheme rejects divestment pressure
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Country ReportM&A: Regulator set to scrutinise more deals
New tools granted to the Pensions Regulator could see it play a more prominent role in corporate activity such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
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UK roundup: BT to replace £49bn DB scheme with hybrid plan
Plus: GKN-Melrose latest; expert panel to scrutinise USS valuation; Brunel gets FCA green light
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Pension Corp seals $1.2bn longevity reinsurance deal
UK specialist insurer has taken on pension scheme liabilities worth more than £2bn in 2017
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FTSE 350 deficits would take up to five years' earnings to clear
UK – Almost 50% of companies in the FTSE 350 that operate a defined benefit (DB) scheme could pay off the deficit with less than six months earnings. But eight companies, including British Airways, BT Group and ITV would require more than five years of full earnings, a study by ...
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Dutch fund head to chair Swiss private equity firm
NETHERLANDS/SWITZERLAND – Marinus Keijzer, chief investment officer of the Zeist based Emeritaatsfonds GKN pension fund and for 10 years a well known figure at Dutch superfund PGGM, is one of five new proposed board members of Swiss private equity firm 5e Holding....
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UK pension schemes face massive £65bn deficit
UK – Latest estimations by Morgan Stanley put deficits of defined benefit schemes for UK FTSE 100 companies at a massive 65 billion pounds as at the end of 2002, compared to estimates in August last year by UBS Warburg of 28 billion pounds.
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Hedge Funds: Activist funds turn up the heat
Several hedge funds are among the most successful activist investors
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Aggregate FTSE 250 pension deficit hits £12bn
[17:00 CEST 16-09] UK – The total deficit of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes run by companies listed on the FTSE 250 index doubled to £12bn (€13.5bn) over the 12 months to the end of June, research from Pension Capital Strategies (PCS) has suggested.
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