TPR: Increasing number of firms to look to consolidators and superfunds as funding improves

Jonathan Stapleton
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Companies are increasingly looking to consolidators, superfunds and other sophisticated financial structures to help remove their defined benefit (DB) liabilities, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) says.

Speaking at Professional Pensions' DB Consolidation Conference today, the regulator's executive director of regulatory policy, analysis and advice David Fairs noted the market was "ripe for consoli...

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