Defined Benefit

How the funding of defined benefit pension schemes is changing

Pensions Buzz readers were asked for their thoughts on victim compensation

Hymans Robertson webinar advises schemes to determine covenant reliability periods

Barnett Waddingham said a fall in bond yields caused liability values to rise

Slight increase is result of rise in inflationary expectations and fall in gilt yields

Global pension assets declined by 16.7% last year, with the UK pensions market in 4th place

Slight fall in 7800 index comes in anticipation of the end of central bank tightening cycle

Global equity performance and narrowing credit spreads offset falls in gilt yields

The group’s total net DB plan surplus was £3.3bn as at 31 December 2022

TPR has been urged to simplify the draft DB funding code to avoid burden on schemes