Murray Blake has been appointed a consultant by LCP to work in its pension de-risking section, taking the practice to over 30 partners and consultants.
Top stories on PP this week include a £2.4bn longevity swap, old news about the British Coal scheme, and a new work and pensions shadow.
PP talks to Amy Kessler about the booming longevity risk market
Heineken's Scottish and Newcastle Pension Plan has completed a £2.4bn longevity swap with Friends Life.
The Pension Protection Fund is £3.6bn in surplus so is there potential for the lifeboat fund to begin insuring its liabilities? Natasha Browne investigates
The trustees of the AXA UK Group Pension Scheme have agreed a £2.8bn longevity swap with Reinsurance Group of America (RGA).
The insurance industry faces a "severe" concentration of systematic longevity risk through the market for buy-ins, buyouts and longevity swaps, according to professor David Blake.
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.
Andrew Waring talks about buy-ins, buyouts, longevity swaps and multi-employer DC arrangements
PP looks at the range of options for locking down longevity risk