Trustees of the Midcounties Co-operative Pension Scheme have hired Towers Watson to act as fiduciary manager to the £145m fund.
Trustees of the Philips Pension Fund have exchanged holdings of gilts and cash for a buy-in covering £484m of the 33,000-member scheme's liabilities.
The volume of bulk annuity transactions this year has already exceeded the 2012 total thanks to a flurry of large deals completed by Rothesay Life and Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC).
Trustees of the Christopherson (FS) Pension Scheme have agreed a £55m buyout for its members with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC).
Smiths Group has struck a fourth buy-in for its TI Group Pension Scheme, in a £170m deal with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) that takes its total insured liabilities to more than £800m.
Partnership has completed a £22m medically underwritten buy-in with an unnamed scheme, in the largest enhanced bulk annuity transaction to date.
LCP has extended its fixed-fee bulk annuity service for smaller schemes to cover full buyouts.
Trustees of the Auto Windscreens Pension Scheme have secured a £30m buyout in the latest deal in a flurry of de-risking activity.
A panel of trustees and providers discuss how and why schemes can use fiduciary managers
Taha Lokhandwala attended a PIC policyholder forum to find out how the insurer communicates