L&G

Volumes of buy-ins and buy-outs exceeded £11bn for 2015 according to Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP).

Legal and General (L&G) has entered the European pension risk transfer market with a €200m (£146m) transaction with Dutch insurer ASR Nederland NV.

Legal & General (L&G) will no longer report to shareholders on a quarterly basis, after a landmark decision removed the requirement for interim reporting.

The ICI Pension Fund has completed four buy-ins over the last year to take its total benefits insured past £5bn in a strategy advisers say sets a blueprint for other large schemes.

DB schemes take 'up to three months' to respond

Legal and General (L&G) has completed its first bulk annuity deal in the US, entering a joint agreement with Prudential Insurance Company of America to insure $900m (£595m) of liabilities in the Royal Philips scheme.

The Trigon Snacks Pension Scheme, a hybrid arrangement which had been in Pension Protection Fund (PPF) assessment, has completed a buyout with Legal and General (L&G).

Aegon has said it will leave life company trade body the Association of British Insurers (ABI) at the end of the year, and instead lobby the government and regulators directly.

Legal and General (L&G) has reinsured longevity risk relating to $2.9bn (£1.9bn) of pension liabilities in its bulk annuity business through Prudential Retirement Insurance and Annuity Company.

Individual annuity sales at Legal and General (L&G) have fallen by more than half this year, and its bulk annuity business has failed to pick up the slack, figures show.