Basel III is encouraging financial services companies to consider defined benefit (DB) scheme buyouts and buy-ins to move liabilities off their balance sheets, experts say.
In the second part of our video roundtable the panellists discuss the challenges of dealing with auto-enrolment.
The volume of premiums in bulk annuity deals reached a record £3.9bn between July and September, research from LCP shows.
The MF Global UK Pension Fund has left Pension Protection Fund (PPF) assessment after the scheme's trustees secured a £52m buyout with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC).
Jack Jones looks at what is behind the surge in buy-ins this year
Trustees of the Philips Pension Fund have exchanged holdings of gilts and cash for a buy-in covering £484m of the 33,000-member scheme's liabilities.
LCP has extended its fixed-fee bulk annuity service for smaller schemes to cover full buyouts.
Taha Lokhandwala looks at the detail of InterContinental’s £440m buyout deal
Jack Jones warns the focus on DB could come at DC's expense
Jack Jones talks to LCP’s Bob Scott about the consultant’s 20th annual survey of pensions at FTSE100 firms