Professional Pensions: Stories of the week

DB surplus extraction plans, £25m buy-in, bulk annuity sustainability collaboration launch

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Professional Pensions: Stories of the week

This week’s top stories include LCP analysis on the government’s plans for defined benefit surplus extraction, a £25m buy-in deal, and the launch of an industry-wide bulk annuity sustainability collaboration.

1.      Government plans to extract DB surplus 'go much further than most realised', says LCP Government plans to extract the surplus from defined benefit schemes "go much further than most have...

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