A majority of respondents believe the British Steel Pension Scheme will end up going into the lifeboat fund.
The £150m Institution of Engineering and Technology ("IET") Superannuation and Assurance Scheme has completed a £32m medically underwritten buy-in.
Just Retirement and Partnership are looking to raise £150m in equity capital to help meet the costs of their planned £1.6bn merger announced in August.
Top stories on PP online this week include the merger of Just Retirement and Partnership, the rejection of upfront tax relief, and a 50% drop in deficit contributions.
Just Retirement and Partnership have seen sales of individual annuities collapse in the months running up to the introduction of the pension freedoms.
Insurers completed just £800m of buyouts and buy-ins in the first quarter of the year, according research from LCP, far below the £4.4bn written in the first quarter of 2014.
A shipping firm has completed a £23m medically underwritten buy-in with Partnership to insure the benefits of approximately 140 members.
The news was dominated by plans from the three main parties to cut tax relief and increase auto-enrolment contributions this week. Here's what you might have missed.
Taylor Wimpey has cut annual deficit recovery contributions by £30m after completing a raft of liability management exercises including a £206m medically underwritten buy-in.
The market for enhanced bulk annuities has almost hit £700m after a bumper fourth quarter in which 10% of all transactions was medically underwritten, according to research from Hymans Robertson.