Pensions Institute predicts medical underwriting boom in bulk annuity market
The Pensions Institute has predicted there will be rapid growth in medically underwritten bulk annuities as schemes turn to ‘top-sliced' deals and traditional insurers get into the market.
The organisation's report The Good, the Bad and the Healthy: The medical underwriting revolution in the defined benefit de-risking market found 15% of all sub-£100m deals in 2015 used medical underwriting...
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