Pension administrator capacity biggest obstacle to buyout, LCP finds

LCP says schemes at risk of being caught in ‘bottlenecks’ due to lack of administrator bandwidth

Martin Richmond
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Pension administrator capacity biggest obstacle to buyout, LCP finds

Pension administrator capacity constraint is the major obstacle for schemes looking to transition to buyout and wind-up, research from Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) shows.

The consultancy's recent survey polled webinar attendees on what they considered to be the biggest risk to the timetable for a scheme's endgame journey to buyout and wind-up. The research showed, o...

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