L&G teams up with US insurers for first North American bulk annuity deal

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Legal and General (L&G) has completed its first bulk annuity deal in the US, entering a joint agreement with Prudential Insurance Company of America to insure $900m (£595m) of liabilities in the Royal Philips scheme.

The transaction will split the payment of pensions to the scheme's 14,000 pensioner members equally between the two insurers. A third company, American United Life Insurance Company, will insure...

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