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Finance & investment briefing – March 2024

Our Finance & investment briefing (PDF) takes a look at current issues of interest to pension scheme investors. In this briefing Approaching insurers for residual risk cover Legal update Risk transfer highlights...

Finance & investment briefing – December 2023

Our Finance & investment briefing (PDF) takes a look at current issues of interest to pension scheme investors. In this briefing Troubleshooting – the buy-out issues affecting schemes now Legal...

Project management
Can a scheme’s end-game be to simply run on?

Notwithstanding the current economic climate, an increasing number of schemes seem to be finding themselves with a healthy funding position and the timeframe closing at some speed to being in a position to fully buy-out. This means that...

Risk transfer guide for trustees 2022

The risk transfer market has showed itself to be remarkably resilient through recent years’ events. Having worked on a significant share of market transactions over a number of years, our experience is that an increasingly mature market...

Top Tips for Trustees: Crystallising discretions on buy-in

Sarah Henderson’s blog last month, “Why the rules are just the beginning…”, looked at steps to building a benefits specification for a bulk annuity policy. One of the steps was crystallising trustee discretions. Let’s look at...

Bulk annuity contracts: Thinking about risks in risk transfer

A bulk annuity transaction is a transaction about risk.  Funding and administering a DB pension scheme involves lots of risks. A bulk annuity transaction looks to transfer some of those risks from the scheme and its sponsor to an...

Flexibility for longevity swaps in the long term

There has been a recent increase in the volume of longevity swaps being entered into by pension schemes. In 2020, the reported transaction volume for longevity swaps was judged by one consultant to be three quarters of the volume of...