The Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund has secured a £680m buy-in with Rothesay Life.
Jack Jones looks at plans revealed in the Autumn Statement to ease the burden of DB
More than £900m bulk annuity transactions were agreed between July and September 2012, bringing total business to £2.5bn in the year so far.
The LV= Employee Pension Scheme has entered into an £800m longevity swap with Swiss Re to hedge the longevity risk associated with more than 5,000 members.
Tate & Lyle has secured a £347m buy-in with Legal & General to cover 43% of its pensioner liabilities, in the biggest bulk annuity deal of the year.
Jack Jones looks at the pros and cons
RSA and Heineken have signed up to use PensionsFirst's PFaroe platform to help manage their defined benefit pension risk.
The use of liability driven investment strategies as a tool to move schemes towards buy-outs has fallen over the past year, SEI says.
Nearly half of trustees (47%) say their work is hindered by constantly changing legislation, according to MetLife.
A safe-haven forum to discuss incentive exercises is set to be launched in the wake of an industry code of conduct which outlawed the use of cash incentives.