defined benefit

The trustees for Amey OS Pension Scheme have agreed two separate buy-in policies with Just Retirement, worth a total of £65m.

This week's top stories included coverage of the Pensions Regulator issuing the maximum fine to a professional trustee, ABI's data on pension freedoms, and rising inflation.

Deferred members dominate the DB universe but the high cost of insuring them makes bulk annuities out of reach for many schemes, even more so since the introduction of Solvency II. Kristian Brunt-Seymour explores what schemes can do.

Structural imbalances in the gilts market have worsened since the central bank's QE programme faced major setbacks. Supply is squeezed and prices are distorted, pushing down yields yet again. Stephanie Baxter asks if we should be worried.

Nestlé has agreed a deal with trade unions to secure its £3.8bn career average defined benefit (DB) scheme after the company had tried to close it down.

Over 2500 members of Halcrow Pension Scheme have agreed to transfer into a new scheme that lowers benefits but keeps them out of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

The telephone is the least popular way to communicate with a prospective client, according to PP research.

Sarah Steel has been appointed senior new business consultant at Hymans Robertson, after leaving Aon Hewitt.

Buy-in and buyout deals slowed down in the first six months to £2.7bn, which is just over half of business written in H1 last year, according to LCP.

A man will make a case in the Supreme Court for his husband to receive the same death benefits a wife would be entitled to.