Risk Reduction
Risk Reduction
Towers Watson has launched an off-shore longevity hedging service to give medium-sized schemes direct access to the reinsurance market.
11 December 2014
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Risk Reduction
The MacDermid Canning Pension Scheme has bought out its 670-member scheme using Aon Hewitt's implemented annuities service.
10 December 2014
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Risk Reduction
A methodology for assessing longevity basis risk developed by Hymans Robertson and Cass Business School will help bring index-based longevity swaps into the mainstream, say actuaries.
09 December 2014
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Risk Reduction
Partnership has completed a £206m buy-in covering high value members of a "multi-billion pound scheme" in the biggest medically underwritten bulk annuity deal to date.
08 December 2014
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Risk Reduction
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has shunned the idea of creating an industry-specific levy framework over concerns that it was "too easy to manipulate".
08 December 2014
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Risk Reduction
PP looks at the complex set of deals that allowed TRW Automotive to shed more than £2.6bn in liabilities
02 December 2014
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Risk Reduction
Aviva explains the five crucial ingredients needed to conduct a successful bulk annuity transaction.
02 December 2014
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Risk Reduction
Deficits of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes have worsened year on year as a result of critically low bond yields, according to JLT Employee Benefits' monthly index.
01 December 2014
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Risk Reduction
Defined benefit (DB) schemes are underestimating liabilities by 1% by failing to take into account the varying rate of longevity improvements in the population, according to a ground breaking study.
28 November 2014
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Defined Benefit
Top stories on PP this week have included a potential £2bn windfall for sponsors, a complex £2.5bn buyout, a government U-turn on freedom and choice and calls for a drawdown fee cap. Here's what you might have missed.
28 November 2014
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