The EC De Witt pension scheme has entered a buyout with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) after its parent company was bought by a private equity firm.
David James and Dan Naylor are set to be promoted to pensions partner at law firm Travers Smith from 1 July.
Insurers completed just £800m of buyouts and buy-ins in the first quarter of the year, according research from LCP, far below the £4.4bn written in the first quarter of 2014.
Guy Freeman says rising rates could be the silver lining for companies with defined benefit schemes
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The cost of insuring a UK defined benefit (DB) scheme has risen in the past year as prices fell in other markets, according to Mercer.
Helen Morrissey looks at what's on offer for smaller schemes
Andrew Waring talks about buy-ins, buyouts, longevity swaps and multi-employer DC arrangements
The market for enhanced bulk annuities has almost hit £700m after a bumper fourth quarter in which 10% of all transactions was medically underwritten, according to research from Hymans Robertson.
Fewer than one in four schemes are confident their data is up to scratch for completing a risk transfer exercise, according to research from Aon Hewitt.