Defined Benefit

Barclays Group deficit across all its schemes has increased by 550% over 2012 rising by £1.1bn to stand at £1.3bn, its final results have shown.

The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill will not require schemes to provide same-sex spouses with the same survivor benefits as heterosexual married couples.

The Actuarial Profession has revised down its life expectancy projections for older people after recording slower than expected improvements in mortality rates over the last decade.

Swansea Council "unlawfully" transferred £20m from its pension scheme to balance its books when changing banks, according to the Wales Audit Office.

Deficits at the UK's biggest schemes rose more than 20% in January despite big gains on the stock market, according to research from Mercer.

Partnership has completed two medically underwritten buy-ins in a development academics say could kick-start a £380bn market.

The SR Technics UK scheme has avoided entering the Pension Protection Fund after it was cut adrift of its sponsoring employer as part of a corporate restructuring.

Taha Lokhandwala looks at the options for smoothing discount rates

Philip Sutton welcomes the PPF’s new contingent asset guidance

Steve Dainty tells Naomi Rainey how he brought together the Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire schemes