Risk Reduction
Defined Benefit
Deficits of workplace defined benefit schemes have risen by 66% since the end of 2013 as a result of plummeting bond yields, according to JLT Employee Benefits' monthly index.
02 January 2015
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Risk Reduction
Rothesay Life has hedged the longevity risk relating to £1bn of its pension liabilities in a series of deals with Pacific Life Re.
19 December 2014
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Risk Reduction
Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has reinsured the longevity risk relating to £2bn of liabilities with Hannover Re and Reinsurance Group of America this year.
15 December 2014
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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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