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Professional Pensions talks to Iain Church about market capacity for smaller transactions

Jasmine Urquhart
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Hymans Robertson head of core transactions Iain Church
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Hymans Robertson head of core transactions Iain Church

While many headlines in the last few years have focused on large billion-pound blockbuster bulk annuity transactions, a steady stream of smaller buy-ins and buyouts are increasingly taking up more of insurers’ focus.

Already this year, Hymans Robertson said it has worked on several transactions under £100m in size, with eight different insurers, according to its small schemes report – with analysis showing insu...

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