Defined Benefit

Chris Hawley, Jonathan Hazlett and Joe Webster look at what the potential outcome of TPT’s Growth Plan’s 2020 valuation could mean for participating employers.

Just over one-third (36%) of schemes retendering for full fiduciary management services are switching providers, latest analysis by Isio reveals.

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has invested £40m in debt issued by the Royal College of Surgeons in England to finance the redevelopment of its London headquarters.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a data request to 65 financial advisers who advised on transfers from the Rolls-Royce defined benefit (DB) scheme.

Jo Myerson looks what trustees should be considering if their sponsor decides to temporarily shut its doors.

UK pension schemes are working hard to counter climate risks across investment portfolios, but the assessment of climate risks to sponsor covenant must be a key focus of schemes’ broader risk assessment, says Michael Bushnell.

“Mounting red flags of financial stress” have meant almost two-thirds of listed companies with defined benefit (DB) schemes have issued profit warnings this year, EY says.

Only one third of defined benefit (DB) schemes lengthened their recovery plan end dates in 2019, according to research by Hymans Robertson.

Hargreaves Lansdown has been named as the slowest provider to switch pensions through the Origo transfer service.

Regulatory guidance “could set too high a hurdle” for superfunds, Lane Clark and Peacock (LCP) warns.