Exclusive: £50bn of buy-ins need restructuring after GMP equalisation ruling

James Phillips
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Insurers are set to face a "flood of requests" from pension schemes for buy-in contracts to be restructured to allow for guaranteed minimum pension (GMP) equalisation, Aon warns.

More than £50bn of buy-ins have been agreed in the market over the last 10 years, and the majority of them include ‘future-proofing' clauses to allow schemes to update the structure of benefits ins...

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