Buy-in demand to hit £50bn p/a by 2032; De-risking deals total £5.1bn in H1

James Phillips
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Defined benefit (DB) schemes will offload around £700bn of liabilities to insurers over the next 15 years, latest analysis by Hymans Robertson has suggested.

The demand to transfer risk will soar by 400% by 2032, with roughly £50bn a year being transacted, up from current volumes of between £10bn and £15bn. The claim is made in the firm's Risk Transf...

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