Record £12.5bn liability transfer deals sealed

Jenna Towler
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A record £12.5bn risk transfer deals were done in the first half of the year and a quarter of major firms will de-risk by 2012, Hymans Robertson predicts.

The consultant's Managing Pension Scheme Risk Report Q2 2010 said record levels of risk transfers meant it was likely one in four FTSE100 companies would undertake similar exercises within two year...

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